I’ve come to believe that effective prayer hangs on discovering the heart and mind of God, and then praying *that*. The only trouble is, I find doing so really, really hard. This post is dedicated to my sister, who sparked these … Continue reading
This post is to log a connection that came into my mind – an idea that I didn’t want to just fall by the wayside. The title doesn’t mean that I understand Genesis. Ray Anderson writes, “When someone asks where … Continue reading
Abstraction is a wonderful thing, in the African sense of the word wonderful – something to wonder at. What makes us derive general principles for things and build worlds of forms that don’t exist? How does this serve us? When … Continue reading
In this post, I’m rehashing the second chapter of “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.[1] Jesus calls us, “Come and follow me.” If Jesus asks us to do a good work, is this challenge a question of faith or … Continue reading
Who’da thunk it?
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No … Continue reading
[ Dear Reader - please accept this article as written in a Christian voice. It is clearly propaganda, but in the sense that telling a child to "Eat their broccoli" is propaganda. That is, it has an unashamed agenda of … Continue reading
Have you ever been hungry without knowing it? But then you walked past a fast food joint and smelled all that good, hot, tasty grease, and went, “oooohhh…,” and then your belly went, “gruurrgh,” and then you realized you couldn’t … Continue reading
Forgive the “we’s” and the ‘us’es – this is cross posted from a school blog and I’m too focused on my studies to re-write it. Here’s a funny thing. I study Christianity, but I live and breath secularism. In fact, I’m … Continue reading
This is a post I wrote while procrastinating pre-semester study. For some reason I can easily burn three hours writing and editing whenever I have other work to do, but it’s hard to do so when I’m just hanging around … Continue reading