Oct 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
There is an idea currently extremely popular among the spiritual elite of my generation—an idea which is neither spiritual nor elite, but rather unspiritual and elitist. It is the carnal passion for mere dread of a “God” whose lust for physical suffering evokes this...
Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr. Erica Grimm This has been a season of weather watching. Wildfires swirled out of control in our interior, in the peat fields of Greenland and throughout Europe. Whirlwinds Franklin, Harvey, Irma and Maria wreaked category 5 fury, meanwhile 1/3 of...
Oct 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
A meditation on anger I've been meaning to write this one for a long time now, but, well, life happens. A few months back I was on a retreat. It was a great time. Lots of new people, lots of drinking. Not so much new info, but free room, board, and drinks. There...
Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Arnold Shives @ Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire The Influence of Tom Thompson, Emily Carr and the Group of Seven My earliest “art” memories are of a pair of late nineteenth century oils on canvas, portraits with grey-brown backgrounds, that graced the wall of our...
Sep 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Make Israel Great Again Acts 1:6-8 Following the resurrection encounters recorded at the end of the gospels, we are told by Luke in Acts 1:3 that Jesus presented himself alive to (the apostles) after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days...
Sep 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
“A Note on Union with Christ” ©C. Baxter Kruger, Ph.D., 2017 In Honor of Ken Courtney and Lance Muir “Father, I have made Your name known to them, and I will make it known, that the love wherewith you love Me may be in them, and I in them.” —Jesus, John...
