(after the film The Mission)Upon the holy, gilded altar sat ( Read more... )

WARNING: Potential LOST/Donnie Darko spoilers below. Continue at your own risk.

So this may be a theory that has already been partially or wholesale-ly rejected by the producers, but I insist on its possibility nonetheless.

In the fictional treatise A Philosophy of Time Travel, which exists in the universe of Donnie Darko, an uncommon twist on ( Read more... )

From I Kings 19 (ESV), after Elijah shamed the priests of Ba'al on Mount Carmel:
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers." And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. ( Read more... )

We have killed it. You and I. We have killed the American Dream.

Do I have your attention now? BTW: Apologies to Nietzsche.I have thought long and hard this last year or so about what the American Dream is. It's the ability to transcend one's circumstances and ascend in society - to throw off the reins of poverty, ignominy, repression and better ( Read more... )

This is in response to an article in the Baylor Lariat.Adam Moore, adviser for the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor, has started this initiative he calls the "Void collective". In his own words, it is "a place for those on the fringes of belief, a church that’s not a church, a truly open and non-evangelical space, a space that’s not dominated ( Read more... )

One of the most central virtues that has run as a scarlet thread through my life has been moderation or temperance. That is not to say that I have most often exemplified moderation, but that it has often been the measure against which I have gauged my actions and thoughts. I have often thought of Jesus as exemplifying moderation ( Read more... )

OK, begin thought dump ( Read more... )

G. K. Chesterton contrasted the icons of Christianity with those of Eastern religions (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism). He states that while the Eastern religious figures often show deep introspection - closed eyes, detachment from the noise of the world - the Christian figures are wide-eyed and vibrant. There is a nearly violent intensity in ( Read more... )

NB: The word "regard" is in reference to Olivier Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus.

I had a thought during church the other day. We often celebrate Christmas as the festival of Christ's birth in reference to salvation. But a deeper (but just as relevant) aspect of the Incarnation of Christ came to me as this:

Christ embodies everything ( Read more... )

Since graduating high school, I have had the intriguing experience of meeting up (either in real life, or the fake life that is Facebook) with people I have or have not seen (or not even known that well) in quite a while. A few times I have been "friended" by people whom I remembered vaguely or who varied so greatly from my memory of their aspect ( Read more... )