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Cabo 2025
October Fly-Fishing
October Fly-Fishing
Mt. St. Helens - September 5, 2025
“The question that I want to sketch in this work is one that troubles me most deeply. As I now see…
“The question that I want to sketch in this work is one that troubles me most deeply. As I now see it, it seems to be insoluble and assumes a serious character of historical oddness. It may be put very simply: How has it come about that the development of Christianity and the church has given birth to a society, a civilization, a culture that are completely opposite to what we read in the…
Mt. Rainier - July 16, 2024
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Fly-Fishing Grand Teton National Park.
Isaiah 2
“The Mountain of the House of the LORD 1 This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem: 2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. 3 And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the…
Zephaniah 1 - 3
Zephaniah 1 Zephaniah Prophesies Judgment on Judah 1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah: 2 “I will completely sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD. 3 “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and…
Psalms of Ascent
Psalm 120 - In My Distress I Cried to the Lord In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue? Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree! Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar! Too…
You Are My Refuge and My Fortress
ryanpflynn : This Psalm came up in my meditation the other night. Perhaps it will mean something to you during this time: 1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. a 2 I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague. 4 He will…
For Unto Us a Child Is Born
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder. For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod…
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It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child’s balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon, there is no sense in trying Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn Suicide remarks are torn From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn Plays wasted words proves to warn That he not busy being born is busy dying…
All Saints’ Day – 2020
Happy All Saints’ Day!
You Are My Refuge and My Fortress
This Psalm came up in my meditation the other night. Perhaps it will mean something to you during this time: 1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. a 2 I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague. 4 He will cover you with…
Utopia Achieved?
From Jean Baudrillard’s, America (1986): “America is utopia achieved. We should not judge their crisis like we would judge our own, the crisis of the old European countries. Ours is a crisis of historical ideals facing up to the impossibility of their realization. Theirs is a crisis of an achieved utopia, confronted with the problem of its duration and permanence. The Americans are not wrong in…
ryanpflynn: “The only cult that can truly thrive in the aftermath of Christianity is a narrow...
ryanpflynn : “The only cult that can truly thrive in the aftermath of Christianity is a narrow service of the self, of the impulses of the will, of the nothingness that is all the withdrawal that Christianity leaves behind..” — David Bentley Hart
Reading – 10/10/2020
Some of my recent reading: The David Bentley Hart translation of the New Testament, which is now the only translation of the New Testament I’ll be using. ETHICAL CONUNDRUMS: When and Why did the Christian Church Stop Viewing Usury as a Sin? - An old Guardian page w/ some interesting responses. A not-so-good FEE (Foundation for Economic Education) article on the topic: AOC and Tucker Carlson Are…
René Girard, The Scapegoat — Crises and Stereotypes of Persecution
“The persecutions in which we are interested generally take place in times of crisis, which weaken normal institutions and favor mob formation. Such spontaneous gatherings of people can exert a decisive influence on institutions that have been so weakened, and even replace them entirely. These phenomena are not always produced by identical circumstances. Sometimes the cause is external, such as an…