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!

Posts tagged virtue

Virtue Peacocks and Other Birds

Virtue Peacocks and Other Birds

One way I think about the current state of public discourse is in terms of four birds, the chicken, the peacock, the ostrich, and the owl.

Daniel TaylorDaniel TaylorNovember 22, 2017culture wars, public conversation, virtue Comments

Christian Realism and Pagan Virtues — The Tragic Sense of Life

Karl Bonhoeffer lost his eldest son in WWI. He lost two others—Dietrich and Klaus—in WWII, both for their participation in the plot to kill Hitler. He also lost the husbands of two daughters, plus many friends. Writing soon after hearing of the deaths of Dietrich and Klaus, he said of that loss, “We are sad, but also proud.”

Daniel TaylorDaniel TaylorSeptember 1, 2011Bonhoeffer, Christian realism, Niebuhr, pagan, tragic sense, virtueComment

Lawn Mowing and Learning

I was riding in a car yesterday and saw a scene straight from Norman Rockwell. A father was seemingly mowing his lawn and right behind him was his around four-year-old son pushing a small, plastic toy lawnmower, head down and very earnest in his mowing.

Daniel TaylorDaniel TaylorAugust 10, 2011Romantic, science, virtueComment