It is to me a marvel, the way seemingly disparate sources give us puzzle pieces that fit together into a unified whole. I seem to be developing a whole cosmology (or is the Spirit teaching me?) out of bits of various readings. Awhile back, in N.T. Wright’s Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope, I found [...]
Entries Categorized as 'What Is Man?'
Puzzle Pieces
June 4, 2010
Earthquakes
January 15, 2010
Thinking about earthquakes. The devastation in Haiti and the suffering that is going on there make it hard to countenance my concerns with the petty issues of my own life right now. What should be my response? What can be my response? Isn’t it odd, how our lives seem to be layered with different kinds [...]
Here’s the Marvel
January 8, 2010
“Here’s the marvel: that the self-contained And all-sufficient triple Unity Which for untold eternities had reigned Complete in its own pure simplicity Should will unnecessary worlds to be. And yet his mind was steel, his purpose flint: He struck off sparks of flaming ecstasy And called the stars by name. The thing he meant? To [...]
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