And Did Those Feet? “So much of the Christian life is fire. The minute you begin to look inward you quail before the amount of work to do, and this ‘unseen warfare,’ as the Orthodox East refers to it, is the work of the Christian life.”
The Evolving Animals of the Music of Our Words: “Words wander around the world detached from presence. The word has become unflesh and it has moved into the neighbourhood as a ghost of its former self. Words are, when separated from being, the mere ghosts of our thoughts. In this digital age, this has gotten worse than it was in the age of print, which was arguably, at least in some ways, worse than the age of orality—at least insofar as separating words from being is or was concerned.”
The Red Hand Files: “When Jesus talks to the multitudes by the sea at Capernaum he expounds a series of bizarre ideas that revolve around the eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood. This is all too strange for most of the onlookers and unconvinced they move away. Jesus turns to the disciples, his closest friends, and asks, ‘Will you too leave me?’ Later, in the garden before he is crucified, he appeals to his friends to watch over him while he prays, but they fall asleep. ‘Could you not watch with me for an hour?’ he laments. These poignant scenes of a sad and wounded Jesus show his deeply human need for the love of his friends. Time and again he asks his disciples to believe in him, for what is a friend if not someone who believes in you.”
What is Really Inside the Briefcase in ‘Pulp Fiction’? “…the hero’s journey to another world isn’t a myth or legend, but an ongoing practice in the modern world. That can’t be true. Or can it?”