nearer the light, into the clarities come
Sometimes the will is arrested at a choke point; the traffic can t be pushed through, in the mind s view the cars metal bodies crunch and the bones crack, snap, to funnel into the narrow channel, the marrow oozing onto the flannels of those who simply wanted to get to the other side, to cross the Continue reading Chokepoint
/ For my paternal grandmother, Margaret. Buckling sheets of velvet meet one another at angles and spangled with years of scars. Similitudes of a coffee-stained sofa: the blotches: marks of aggregate hospitality; quietly notching her, perches for foreign birds, loitering long after their tenants migrated. Flocks of whispers gather around their exhibition (they Continue reading Hands
This is the twenty-seventh follow-up entry to the post, Gagarin and the Seven Heavens”. The previous posts ranged across a number of authors at different times and places and religious affiliations, and were not organized well into any outline, so I ordered them; further, the follow-up posts were becoming so numerous, and the text block Continue reading Cyril of Alexandria on the Star-Studded…
Insofar as every message has an audience, and every social institution has an appeal to certain demographics more than to others, both are limited by the economy. The degree to which a message/institution is limited and the number of niches to which it can address itself varies. We overlook these limitations of our beloved institutions Continue reading The Economic Horizon
This is the twenty-sixth follow-up post to Gagarin and the Seven Heavens. The evangelical Protestant apologist Norman Geisler died on the 1st of July, 2019. He was 86 years old. While he had a PhD in philosophy, he is not remembered for his contributions to that field, but applied his philosophical training to the defense Continue reading Norman Geisler on the Ascension of Jesus
I cannot seem to translate the wordless words in my heart; the young foals spill from their mother and walk in seconds; there is merely an absence where my words should be, the sliverous trace of a scent with no possible origin, non-recallable, a fading shadow on the wall that tires of waiting for them, Continue reading Muted
I have written previous posts, posts about these topics. Part one is here, two is here, two (.5) is here. I also wrote about Crenshaw here. I have changed my mind a great deal on these matters since I committed to writing about them. Here, I think about the cultural trends indicated by some of Continue reading Identity Politics: Impact versus Intent, 2.75 of 4
I have not seen the latest iPhone but I m sure it will be a little bit prettier than the one before it and the one before that. Perhaps it will even have a neat feature where kids, with pretensions that their banalities are an event, can adjust the flashing notifications to be multiple colors. Continue reading Progress versus Novelty
This is the twenty-fifth follow-up to the post, Gagarin and the Seven Heavens . Here, I am digressing into a series of posts on the secondary literature, for a bit, regarding πνεῦμα ( spirit ) in Paul, in the Hebrew Bible, in Stoicism, late antique Neoplatonic texts, and in some North African Christian texts from before Nicea. I Continue reading James Dunn on the Spirit —Human and Divine— in Paul…
This is the twenty-fourth follow-up to the post, Gagarin and the Seven Heavens . Previously we focused on the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Here, we focus on an Anglican theologian from the more Evangelical side of the Anglican Church. The previous follow-up posts were becoming so numerous —and the text block listing and introducing Continue reading N. T. Wright on the Ascension…