Adapted from a talk given for Perspective Student Weekend at New College Franklin, Spring 2017 There are times when a song is in my head, or more precisely, part of a song–a refrain which I repeat over and over. No matter how lovely or stirring such a refrain may be, it is imperfect apart from the whole, and … Continue reading Greek is Regular; Greek is Fun: Memory, Science, and the Face of God
Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit (epigraph of Brothers Karamazov from John 12:24)ˆ Early in Brothers Karamazov, we meet a mother who has journeyed a long way to visit Zosima, a monk of wisdom and holiness. … Continue reading The Iconography of Sorrow in a Brothers Karamazov
When you just want to let them know how sick you are of defrosting frozen rats for them for dinner, only for them to refuse to eat! Ugh…the worst, especially when its been going on for a while…like since November. Is it wrong that I will be more upset about the loss of an investment than … Continue reading We all get there Sometimes
There two schools of Christian anthropology. The first school I will call the Noetic. It advocates the transforming power of knowing God. To know God’s love is to be transformed by that love. The second is the school of Praxis and Discipline. We needs to press on and take hold of what Christ has secured for us, thereby … Continue reading Noetic Transformation vs. Discipline and Praxis
Before we learn to live with, for, and even from others, we are no better than the men of P.G. Wodehouse’s short story Buried Treasure who spend their time growing mustaches at one another. Continue reading A Further Consideration on Prepositions, Courtesy of P.G. Wodehouse
As we begin to mature in Christ, we find that we have begun to relate to others in new ways. We begin to live with others, rather than merely at them. We begin to even exist for rather than continually taking from. This is a result of being restored into the prepositional life of the Trinity, in which God is to, for, … Continue reading In the Newness of Prepositions
It lasts only two minutes. Titled “Dear Future Mom,” the film features children with Down syndrome from different nations. They speak in…(click here to read the entire article) Continue reading Is the right to abort a child with disabilities becoming a duty?
Here is my contribution to the theme “writing as a spiritual discipline” over at the Blog of the Emerging Scholars Network. Thanks for featuring my work again folks! Continue reading Writing as a Spiritual Discipline: A Post on the Emerging Scholars Blog
Featured Image: Grainy Sunset by Jan Hapke When we read the Iliad at New College Franklin, I like to spend time with my students on Homer’s similes. What we find in them is not just a way of sharing information, but a mode of inhabiting the world. Inhabiting the World A simile can simply be the artistic flourish of an author. … Continue reading Inhabiting the World through Homer: On the Homeric Simile
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