Category: Lent ’07

Imagine what it would be like if you had no way to see any aspect of yourself, except what you could glean by direct sight. For this little exercise I would like to include not just reflective glass or other…

The Greek word for love that depends on natural affection, storgē (στοργή), is not used anywhere in the Bible. It is only used in compound forms, two of which are very striking. Paul uses the negative, without natural affection, as…

Magic and things that might as well be magic, like the abilities of the X-MEN like genetic anomalies in the television series Heroes, are everywhere these days. It has been building for a while, but whether you consider the current…

Today is the Sunday in which the Church celebrates the angel appearing to Mary and telling her she was to bear God’s Son. It is called the Feast of the Annunciation. One of my favorite paintings is of this event,…

Coming out of a Reformed view of the world in my early Christian formation, I believe that God has a plan for each of us, set within the context of his overall plan for humanity as a whole, and he…

How often do you admit you are wrong, that you have done something you need to apologize for or ask forgiveness for? For most of us, it is very seldom. However, as Christians, that process forms the central tenant of…

As I was driving home from work today, I noticed the man in the car next to me singing. Sometimes people sing in their cars, especially while driving rush hour traffic. It is a good way to dissipate the frustration…

Only fifteen days left in our Lenten observance. This need to write something each night (can’t write in the morning…I leave for work at 6 am), has been good for me. Though, trying to be erudite when you are tired…

One of the hardest things in life to deal with is disappointment, such as when expectations go unmet or people unexpectedly “throw you under the bus” as the current aphorism goes. When approval, for whatever reason, is withdrawn, it bites…

I read that phrase in an article by John Mark Reynolds, “Who’s There?”. The article discusses the critical question asked throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Mark argues that in the play, “Shakespeare has no time for the comforting cowardice of atheism; the universe…