Staying
Without roots of love, we easily become slaves to our own desires, using the place where we happen to be as a staging ground for our ambitions and manipulating the people around us so they…
Category: Quotes
When Money Determines Everything
Without the existence of a rich set of criteria for evaluating the application of time, money quickly becomes the lowest common denominator that defines whether or not time is being spent in a worthwhile manner….
Two Temptations of Longing For Justice
If God exists and is active, if his will and action truly raised Jesus from the dead, then what we think and do and achieve as human beings is not the only thing that the…
Religion Bridges Science and Art
“If science is the commitment to know the world objectively and art the means of expressing oneself subjectively, religion was and is a bridge between subject and object, a way of making meaningful connection between…
Consumerism, Property, Ownership, Community and the Eucharist
The link between property and freedom is a crucial one. Free-market advocates tend to be agnostic on the question of ownership: barring external interference, an exchange is formally free even if the only thing a…
The Federal Government Is Awesome
“The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) of 1996 cost Canadian taxpayers, which of course include Aboriginal peoples as well, $63 million and produced four hundred recommendations. As far as has been reported in the…
Sacrifice Creates Entitlement
“Sacrifice” usually leads to a well-hidden sense of entitlement and perpetuates the vicious circle of merit, a mind-set that leads most of us to assume that we are more deserving than others because of what…
Guarding Against Change
Propaganda doesn’t succeed because it is manipulative, it works because people WANT it, NEED it, it gives their life a direction and meaning and guards against change. – The Last Psychiatrist (How Does The Shutdown…
The World Does Not Absorb The Text, Rather The Text Absorbs The World
Typology does not make scriptural contents into metaphors for extrascriptural realities, but the other way around. It does not suggest, as is often said in our day, that believers find their stories in the Bible,…
Christians, Anarchy and Stories That Inspire
Been reading a few different books lately on the idea of Christian Anarchy. What it means, what it means for the Christian, who follows these precepts and what it could possibly have to do with…
What is Freedom?
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every…
Do You See The World As A Gift?
Terry Eagleton wrote an amazing book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton. I didn’t even know who he was before I stumbled on that book. It was by far the…
The Peace of Wild Things
In light of the news of Tim Bosma my heart breaks for the world. The Peace of Wild Things BY WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the…
Narrative Trains Our Emotions Which Conditions Our Perception Of The World
Much of our action is not the fruit of conscious deliberation; instead, much of what we do grows out of our passional orientation to the world- affected by all the ways we’ve been primed to…
An Antidote to Formation
“One way to inoculate ourselves against part of worship’s power is to think of going to church in superstitious terms, as if we are hedging our bets with God. If we participate in worship and…