Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
My Lord, your servants have turned against those you love. They say cruel and mean words. Do you not hear them? My Lady, I hear the wind howling through the trees. Surely, my Lord, you have not missed their strident tongues lashing those whom they deem offensive? Ah...
Jun 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have been asked to explain the Trinity. The first thing I would say is that the doctrine of the Trinity is the way the Christian church frames our understanding of God. Notice I used the word ‘frames.’ A frame is the structure but it is not the house. The wisest in...
Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.” (Susan Sontag) Silence is framed; it is always a silence of something. It is absence but it is idiosyncratic absence – absence in a context, absence of a kind of sound, absence in a kind of place, generated,...
May 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
When first presented with the universalist hope, many Orthodox and Roman Catholics immediately invoke the authority of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (553), citing the fifteen anti-Origenist anathemas: “Apokatastasis has been dogmatically defined by the Church as...
May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
In 1546 the English playwright John Heywood coined the phrase ‘There’s none so blind as those who will not see’ and although it is believed to be in reference to Jeremiah 5:21, his words could easily be applied to the story of the blind man in John 9.[1] John is...
Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The writing of dialogue has at its heart a conflict. At first glance, writing is what dialogue is not and to see the two come together is to encounter a kind of negation.1 In one direction, the instability of speech seems to become fixed in a text. In another, a...
