On Meditation
March 31, 2018[…] times, thinner limbs. I counted calories and measured miles. I ran, but never liked it, didn’t like the way I beat myself up while I was running—”faster! faster!”—nor the fact that I dreaded the […]
[…] times, thinner limbs. I counted calories and measured miles. I ran, but never liked it, didn’t like the way I beat myself up while I was running—”faster! faster!”—nor the fact that I dreaded the […]
[…] being downsized out of the firm, he becomes energized, spinning, as it were, into an ancient Mediterranean world of fate. This middle executive, who goofily references old movies like Alfie and Kramer vs. Kramer, […]
Theology is usually considered an intellectual activity for philosophers and educated religionists. Actually, most humans discuss the same sub jects, but at a different level than do the pundits. Commoners too cogitate upon the […]
For my father-in-law, who knew the conflict Alvin Hawking awoke two hours after dusk. He slipped out of his cot and dressed in the dim yellow light that washed through the screen door at […]
[…] Greek text of 1 Enoch 1:8.[35] An example of the similarities can also be seen when the English texts of Jude and 1 Enoch are placed together. In Jude v.l it says, “to those […]
[…] I get up and grade papers, but it’s hard to be charitable when everyone in the whole world is asleep but me. I ought to attack the furnace room. The way we keep the […]
[…] because I find this sentiment blasphemous and partly because I ironically find myself somehow envying the simplistic world in which people who believe such things live. To think that God would bless us for […]
[…] after the rejection at the door. Throughout the poem these two adore one another and the sensuous world in which they find themselves. Throughout the poem they take turns as pursuer; longing leads to […]
Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 61–64 Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone […]
[…] volunteered at homeless shelters and had graduate-school pro jects that would save the whales or maybe the world. We stayed friends with those who gave up on the Church as too repressive, provincial, non-intellectual, […]