Although I haven’t been working on it very much lately (too busy), I thought that I’d post another draft chapter of Twilight Falling. I introduced you to Braeden and a mysterious stranger in a draft of chapter 1 (.pdf link).
Now here comes Chapter 3 (yes, I know that you’re missing Ch.2, but this is supposed to […]
Archive for August, 2007
Today, people are fearful of germs. Yesterday, people were fearful of demons and/or vengeful gods.
Yesterday, people would go to enormous lengths to propitiate the wrath of these spiritual beings, offering sacrifices and the like. Today, we make the modern sacrifice of spending ridiculous amounts of money on granite countertops and recessed sinks to avoid germs on […]
As my last post indicated, I’m currently reading James K.A. Smith’s Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. He’s helping me to understand the phenomenon of postmodern philosophy much better than any other tutor I’ve had previously. He is actually familiar with each author’s writings (particularly Derrida) and is therefore able […]
I’m reading James K.A. Smith’s Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, which has a point that resonates very strongly with what I’m struggling about regarding church. (Not that I’m struggling against “them,” but “me.”)
Within the matrix of a modern Christianity, the base “ingredient” is the individual; the church, then, is simply […]
Many people pose faith and reason as opposites. You can have one or the other, but not both. They think like this: faith is non-rational and sets limits on the terrain that reason can explore, stifling it. Reason, on the other hand, promotes a blanket skepticism that is inherently hostile to (unthinking) faith.
I think that the […]
Friday night there was a massive thunderstorm, bringing hail and a power outage to my town. I was awed by the ferocity of God’s creation and at how small and fragile I really am.
Without electricity, I was at a loss. My internet connection was down, and my laptop would have only lasted about 2 hours anyways. […]
