Aug 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Canada, according to Richard Gwyn, owes its existence as nation distinct from United States of America on John A. Macdonald. Gwyn’s latest book, Nation Maker: His life, our times, Random House, 2011, documents and narrates how John A. Macdonald as Canada’s...
Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Babylonian Captivity of the Gospel, Michael Hardin Presented to Theology and Peace, May 31-June 2, 2011 in Baltimore, MD I would like to suggest an outline for what a North American Protestant Christian theology informed by the mimetic theory...
Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Option A Carve me into your back and let me ride with you on your weird and dilapidated horse into an unending sunset; to be the flag of your martyrdom and a child of burden. Option B Carve me into your back and let me ride with you on your weird and dilapidated horse...
Jul 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last Sunday during our jail service I came prepared to baptize a man who had requested baptism a few weeks before. The jail Sergeant even personally filled up the minimalist paper cup for this Sacrament, handing it to me with a smirk across the...
Jul 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
There are many methods of interacting with God, maybe as many as there are people, but my favorite is the Orthodox method, handed down by the Desert Fathers. Technically this prayer would be known as Hesychasm, the prayer of rest or quiet. But it comes to us today...
Jul 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
I often come away from theologically oriented discussions about the topic of justice, especially about criminal justice, with the impression the Old Testament is regarded as the preferred place for the grounding for the concept of justice, especially in Amos or...
