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...
Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University. Pacifists always bear the burden of proof. They do so because, as attractive as nonviolence may be, most assume that pacifism just will not work. You may want to keep a few...
Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Most readers will have seen this posted everywhere, but if you haven't take the time to watch it through, it really is a good reminder that many of the Psalms were far more honest than they were liturgical (unless the two can be one!) … they cry out re: our...
Apr 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
The sin my father sinned is mine;the sin my mother sinned is mine;so it is since the world began,so will it be till the world ends. I am Adam, I am Eve,in me there grows the wicked tree,through me the glittering serpent climbs,my teeth break the apple’s rind. My...
Apr 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
“The Resurrection, Cookham”, in its presentation of an eschatology which begins in the here and now, embeds a message which speaks of our world and our present as intimately bound with God for eternity. This conception of an eternal, connecting relationship between...
Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Canaanite Woman – by Sadao Watanabe Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering...
