Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief.
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief
- U2 “The Fly”
At best, we’re never completely original in what we create, even though there’s a certain school of thinking that says you must always do something brand new.
We’re always working with existing material. It would be foolish, for […]
Archive for July, 2007
Making this post is like a blank slate that doesn’t seem to fill up no matter what I throw at it. I’ve started writing and rewriting it countless times, each time using the backspace key to perform what once was a much more satisfying task of rolling a piece of paper into a crumpled ball […]
Going the second mile is a cliché that nobody understands the meaning of. At least, that’s the conclusion that I came to after reading Walter Wink’s interpretation of this saying of Jesus in his book The Powers That Be. I’ve already covered his interpretation of turning the other cheek and giving up your cloak in […]
My last post dealt with Walter Wink’s interpretation of “turning the other cheek” in The Powers That Be. Moving on the the next section, he deals with Mat. 5:40, in which Jesus says “if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.” I must admit, this is […]
In reading Walter Wink’s The Powers That Be, I’m being confronted by a biblical-theological condemnation of all violence and an upholding of nonviolence as the true way of following Jesus. It is clear that Jesus advocated nonviolence in the Sermon on the Mount:
You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. […]
I grew up watching a lot of cartoons. The Transformers held pride of place in my life, while many others that came and went never ceased to be a source of endless fascination to me. They all portrayed what seemed to my credulous little mind the endless battle between the forces of good and the […]
