• • • To care for what we know requires care for what we don’t, the world’s lives dark in the soil, dark in the dark. Forbearance is the first care we give to what we do not know. We live by lives we don’t intend, lives that exceed our thoughts and needs, outlast ourContinue reading “Wendell Berry: To care for what we know”
Yearly Archives: 2020
Mercy not Sacrifice (4): The Act that Counters Contempt
Mercy not Sacrifice (4): The Act that Counters Contempt We are thinking through Richard Beck’s illuminating book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. In our first post, we introduced his suggestion that disgust psychology can help explain the ways we view and treat other people. Do we view them through the lens of sacrificeContinue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (4): The Act that Counters Contempt”
Views of God and the Corona Virus
Few things caused me to become more upset in the early days of the pandemic, than people stating their opinions about how God and the pandemic were related. The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that these views reinforce what I wrote back in February of 2019 when I asked: “WhatContinue reading “Views of God and the Corona Virus”
Mercy not Sacrifice (3): Of naked savages and crucified thieves
We are thinking through Richard Beck’s illuminating book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. In our first post, we introduced his suggestion that disgust psychology can help explain the ways we view and treat other people. Do we view them through the lens of sacrifice — that is, with a purity filter that setsContinue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (3): Of naked savages and crucified thieves”
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: Independence Day 2020 Edition
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: Independence Day 2020 Edition • • 2020 is the perfect time to hear again the greatest speech in American history… Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statementContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: Independence Day 2020 Edition”
IM Recommended Viewing: Hamilton
IM Recommended Viewing: Hamilton Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me You let me make a difference A place where even orphanContinue reading “IM Recommended Viewing: Hamilton”
Facemasks Revisited
Facemasks Revisited The wearing of a face mask when in public continues to be a matter of controversy. A video of a man trying to force himself past a Walmart employee in Florida has gone viral. A women in Ventura County California castigates county council members for requiring masks saying she refuses to wearContinue reading “Facemasks Revisited”
Wednesday with Michael Spencer: Just a guy with a life
Wednesday with Michael Spencer Just a guy with a life (excerpt from Chronicle of the Journey, 2008) I’m a fifty one year old guy whose days leading churches in his denomination are probably over, whose wife got burned out in the non-existent “spirituality” of 30+ years of Baptist church life and ministry, who has beenContinue reading “Wednesday with Michael Spencer: Just a guy with a life”
Mercy not Sacrifice (2): How do we view the “unclean”?
We are thinking through Richard Beck’s illuminating book, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. In our first post, we introduced his suggestion that disgust psychology can help explain the ways we view and treat other people. Beck’s focus in this study will be on the church, and answers to questions like: Why do churches,Continue reading “Mercy not Sacrifice (2): How do we view the “unclean”?”
Using God for Political Purposes
I am in the process of writing a post entitled “Five Six Seven Views Of God and the Corona Virus”. The Post keeps changing the more I read and think about it. In considering all the different ways that I have heard people express their view of God and the Corona Virus, there was oneContinue reading “Using God for Political Purposes”
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