Tag: religion
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Dismay
I listened to Beth Allison Barr’s conversation with Pete Enns and Jared Byas on The Bible for Normal People this morning, while I was making coffee and sorting out tax forms, because I read her book, and I was interested. Her ideas are not what produced the dismay. What caused me dismay was hearing, towards…
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Yom Kippur
For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite. Isaiah 57:15
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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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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…
Matters of Interpretation 