Tag: religion
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“Writing in the Sand” by Christian Wiman
On religion and poetry, being and meaning, and on God’s … being in the world as poetry is in the poem, a law against its closure. Beautiful. Image: “Pre School lesson writing in sand,” Menschensindanders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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“Christ is Risen”
Two chants from Orthodox Easter liturgy: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life. Thy resurrection, O Christ our Savior The angels in heaven sing Enable us on earth to glorify thee in purity of heart about the image (first posted April 11, 2018)
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Happy Hastings Day
Today is Hastings Day. The Battle of Hastings, arguably the most decisive battle in world history, was fought 955 years ago today, on October 14, 1066. Here’s the annual celebratory post: I promised my brother, the historian, that I would celebrate it appropriately. According to him, and he knows these things, it was long the […]
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Merry Christmas!
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and […]
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Shabbat shalom
The underlying purpose of all great religions and religious movement is to beget a life of elation, of fervor which cannot be stifled by any experience, which, therefore, must spring from a relationship to the eternal, above and beyond all individual experiences. Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim, Schocken Books, 1947, 26.
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An Arresting Poem
Among other things, it illustrates the point that lived religion is worlds apart from theology and religion in books. “When I Became La Promesa,” Peggy Robles-Alvarado [Image: Portrait of Cécile Anker reading, Albert Anker, 1886, public domain]
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What People Mean By “God”
Professor Stevenson has written a remarkable book: clear enough to understand the first time through; short enough to read through again, just to be sure; engaging enough to want to do that; interesting and important enough to want to hang on to for future reference. Stevenson, Leslie. Eighteen Takes on God: A Short Guide for […]
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What is it about Religious People?
Richter, Kent. Religion: A Study in Beauty, Truth, and Goodness Oxford University Press: 2017. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] Here’s why I asked for a textbook for Christmas: because I am always on the lookout for textbooks, and because I had found this one that looked like it might be ideal for Introduction […]
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Study Notes – Romans 11 11-24
We are studying Romans 11:11-24 for Sunday, May 19. This continues our study of Romans with a portion of Paul’s meditation on how the nation of Israel figures in the divine plan of justification by grace through faith and the liberating law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, which Paul has been laying […]
Matters of Interpretation 