Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in metanoia, personal on 16 August 2007 - 3 אלול 5767
I think I’ve finally realised why I like working in bookstores (as much as I enjoy technology) and why I have fantasies not about running a multimillion dollar website, or my own computer shop, but rather about owning a bookstore/cafe where I can serve tuna salad and sell arcane texts and dawdle with customers over [...]
Posted in metanoia, orthoparadoxy, personal on 13 August 2007 - 30 אב 5767
I have trouble finding a creative tension between two things:
The idea that the human supposed to pay attention to the “immortal things” because the flesh passes away.
and
The idea that the human was created to be a Body-Spirit synergy that, while currently broken because of, is restored in Christ.
The former seems very Gnostic. The [...]
Posted in Brodie, Teh Gay, The Hammer, metanoia, photoblog on 25 June 2007 - 10 תמוז 5767
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Pics from Toronto Pride are posted on flickr. I will add more comments later: time to drive home.
Dov draws on a lot of Jewish tradition to show us why honesty and business ethics are way more important. Way.
Mass grave found in Ukraine from WW II:
A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine near the site of what was once a concentration camp, a Jewish community representative said Tuesday.
Mourners’ Kaddish
Posted in contemplation, metanoia, personal on 21 May 2007 - 5 סיון 5767
Interesting series of emails over the weekend. A summary follows not in exact words, but rather my ideas mixed with those of my correspondent.
What does it mean to wrestle with the Biblical texts? How can we take the Bible as a cultural document, but also as a spiritual one, speaking to us *where we are* [...]
Increasingly it seems that “promote”, in the language of conservative Christians, really means didn’t say bad things about. And I wonder if I’ll ever be asked to just say F.U. to people I simply am supposed to love, in order to prove I’m not one of them.
I ate the bread.
Conversion isn’t, after all, a moment: It’s a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt. As I struggled with bread and wine and belief over the following year at St Gregory’s, it stayed hard. I began to understand why so many people [...]
Posted in metanoia, teh internets on 21 April 2007 - 4 אייר 5767
Virginia Tech pays respects to victims, and gunman (From Reuters):
“A small tribute to Seung-Hui Cho, who shot his victims then himself on Monday, has been added to a growing memorial of stones in the center of the sprawling university in southwest Virginia where knots of weeping students continue to gather.
‘I just wanted you to [...]
In 1973-74, in a small school district in rural southern Georgia, my family lived in a house off a dirt road in an unincorporated town so small we had to go to several towns over to get the mail. Every day my brother, sister and I would ride a bus for quite a long [...]
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