complexity — Neither/Nor Blog

Neither/Nor:
Ruminations of a Spiritual Traveler

With apologies to Kierkegaard’s Either/Or, our general topic is the reflective Christian sailing in the sea of contemporary culture (and church). A cacophonous sea of competing claims and counter-claims, to which I often find myself responding “neither/nor.” But “what instead?” Aye, there’s the rub, matey. And that’s the white whale we pursue. Boats away!

More Than Can Be Weighed, Measured, or Counted

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.

Daniel TaylorDaniel TaylorMay 31, 2019complexity, materialism, profundity, scienceComment

Complexity Versus Profundity and the Hunger for Transcendence

A passage from a novel in progress—the third novel in the Jon Mote series that began with Death Comes for the Deconstructionist. Jon is a troubled soul, in many different but related ways. He tends to be obsessive in his thought life, which is the only life any of us really knows. He’s abandoned the religious faith of his youth, but is still haunted by it.

Daniel TaylorDaniel TaylorDecember 12, 2017complexity, novel, profundity, transcendence Comment

Neither/Nor: Ruminations of a Spiritual Traveler

Neither/Nor:
Ruminations of a Spiritual Traveler