The real walking dead

The truth is we’re all zombies. The question is: what are we feeding on? Happy All Hallows’ Eve / Hallowe’en / Halloween! (the “eve” in this instance is the night before All Saints’ Day [All Hallows’ Day], a Christian feast day in honor of every saint) I present a ghoulishly-themed post in honor of the tradition […]

What’s in your head?

What goes in forms what comes out. There’s a ton of scientific research that documents the drastic impact the things we witness, watch, and listen to have in altering our brain chemistry. And like rivers eroding earth over time, when brain chemistry is altered, it can and does change the landscape of the brain itself, either […]

Idol heart

Oh, God, how easily I forget… None of this. Nothing. Nothing. Is about me. It’s all. Every last thing. About You. May I diminish. So You may be More.

Salvation

“Heaven and hell are important, but they’re not the end of the world.” So says Bishop N.T. Wright, partially tongue-in-cheek, in several lectures I’ve listened to. Wright is addressing the misplaced emphasis many Christians (and consequently most non-Christians) place on “going to heaven / avoiding hell” as the central point to the concept of salvation. […]

The Power of Darkness

***Note: it’s likely important for me to emphasize the limits of my anger to adult interpersonal relationships and the limits of my actions to verbal comments therein. That is the full extent of my thoughts and actions, and everything written here is only understood within this context, and nothing more*** I’ve been airing some of […]

Just You and me

Well, God. Here we are. One of those times when I feel completely alone, so You’re all I have. Ironic of course because You’re ever all I have deep down beneath and through all else, but I’m easily distracted. Spiritual ADD, I guess. You know I love You. You know we have so much to […]

Suffering, reconsidered

Two posts ago we discussed evil, pain and suffering. I suggested that evil may be most properly understood not as a “thing” in itself but as the absence of good; the absence of God. As such God would not have technically created evil, as it is a thing that exists as a consequence of His […]