December 2008
6 posts
Death and Potatoes
Today we picked up my grandmother from the assisted living home in which she now resides along with three other elderly, almost-crazy women. They are sweet, but it is quite the wild ride going over there to visit. I have endured ten-second-long kisses on the back of the hand, a false-alarm death, and painfully penetrating stares. My grandmother is certainly the most coherent among them, but she is...
The Twelve Days of Christmas
I was recently instructed in the traditional Chrismastide calendar. Dr. Chris Alford’s blog argues for the value of an Ancient time-keeping during this season of the year. Advent begins on December 2 and Christmas begins on December 25, but lasts twelve days. I want to celebrate Christ’s birth for those twelve days and not forget about him once the Boy Scouts take our tree down and I...
Community
Mike Skinner, mastermind behind the British hiphop giant, “The Streets” groups Christianity and Alcohol together as the two greatest European narcotics. Faith can just as easily be a drug of escape as can alchohol. Sometimes I wonder if this is why conversion stories of alcoholics and drug addicts to Christianity often don’t move me. Skeptic that I am, I often assume that faith...
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Journey of the Magi
I created a series of collages to go along with one of my favorite Christmas poems. T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” is honest and provocative, providing an interesting perspective on the nativity story.
JOURNEY OF THE MAGI
T.S. Eliot
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The...
Logos
Is the Bible the only source of Truth?
The book is a record of God revealing his truth through myriad agents across time. If the book were the source of truth, that would mean the revelatory agents (prophets, peasants, and prostitutes) are mere symbols. If the words on the pages are our source of truth, then the real human (and sometimes animal) agents behind the words are robbed of their...