Science is a great gift to humankind, and greatly to be praised, but that it explores primarily the fringes of reality, not its heart and core.
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Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions.
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We can avail ourselves of this gathered wisdom or we can rely instead on the thin gruel of our own supply.
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I am intrigued both by “apprehension” and “pre-existent faith.”
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Ethical Materialism might well be the dominant understanding of the world in the West today.
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I believe there is both capital and lowercase Mystery/mystery in reality and in our everyday lives.
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Wisdom that owes its revelation and effect to the words chosen to embody it.
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I am scheduled to go on a three-day silent retreat with the Jesuits today and I don’t want to go. Worse, I don’t exactly know why.
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Thinking you can escape judgementalism by staying away from church folk is like thinking you can avoid cancer by staying away from hospitals.
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The newspaper doesn’t often upset me, largely because it rarely surprises me—either in the events it describes or the opinions it expresses. Occasionally, however, it will crystallize something for me.
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My time at Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing. Heard some stories. And told a few. And learned some things.
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The spirits are kindred spirits, people who understand me and who I understand, though we are largely unknown to each other. I want to put in a good word for kindred spirits.
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Why is Holy Week a big deal to so many Christians? It wasn’t so much to the Baptists I grew up with in Texas and California.
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I belong to a book club for two reasons: I enjoy the company and it leads me to read books that I would not otherwise read—or even know of.
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Any “moderate” position on an important issue should not be a mere averaging of the extremes (resulting in a tepid middling), but a position that itself retains the best of both extremes (and which one supports vigorously).
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I am often not bothered by things that others think I should be bothered by. Some attach dark meanings and motives to my not being bothered, but that doesn’t bother me either.
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Whenever I hear someone claim that they only believe what is demonstrated by reason and science, I want to smile.
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The death of Billy Graham provides an opportunity for reflection. A near-saint to some, another religious huckster to others, I personally take him as both a model and a warning.
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