(Originally posted at Men of Strength on 1 March 2014.) At church this morning we sang Oceans again. Yikes! that is a scarey song! “Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders… Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander …” I advise you to think carefully before you voice that request to God. The place…
An unstated assumption that underlies a lot of my culture’s thinking is that evil deserves to be punished. As of today, I no longer believe it. That change of heart comes from a long line of influences. I read Butler’s Erewhon way back about 1985. It’s a humourous saga in the same genre as Gulliver’s…
Just finished the rather daunting project of trying to understand Rene Girard through the selection of readings in The Girard Reader. Like most deconstructionist and phenomenological writers, Girard’s style makes hard work for the reader! I was very pleased to read at least these main parts of the primary source material but in the end…
