Wordless Word
I find I would rather apprehend the knowable unknowable than attempt to put Logos into words. Some things are better lived than said. “Some things are more important than words,” Marigold said to Guy. “Some…
God and the Tao
Jesus Year: What Does It Mean for Christ to Live in Your Heart?
Asking Jesus into your heart is a dead horse of a phrase that’s been beaten by, I don’t know how many clichés. It’s one of the dearest and perhaps most important ideas to have cemented itself into …
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Jesus Year: Resurrection
One of the ideas I’ve always liked best about the story of Jesus’s resurrection is that he didn’t just die and then rise again after three arbitrary days. Rather, it’s that on an ontological level, Jesus had …
Jesus Year: Crucifixion
The other day we went for a drive toward Mount Hood. I was feeling sick, so I stayed in the car when the family got out to explore the woods in the snow. But they were …
Jesus Year: Spring Equinox
Today is the equinox. This weekend is my birthday, my Jesus year: I will be 33 years old. It occurred to me that I could spend this year trying to get to know him again …
Describe the Indescribable: Go
The other night, King Sturdy wasn’t tired at bedtime because he’d had a late nap, and also because he was scared of the lion and the tiger in his room. I am not about to …
I Don’t Go in for Hierarchy
I’ve been reading the first few chapters of Touching Heaven the last few days, and there’s something in it that sticks in my craw. In a word, it’s hierarchy. The book is about Orthodox Christianity, …
Self-assertion Started It
On page 11, the Oxford summarized the book of Genesis this way: “Genesis … contains two major parts: the primeval history … which tells how human self-assertion brought the world to the brink of destruction;…
Ask Me if I Care
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning …
It’s Personal
On page 12 of Going Home, Thich Nhat Hanh said this: When we ask, ‘Is God a person or is God not a person,’ we get lost. In fact, God is not a person, and God …