Category: Reflections

We find prayer no less a struggle than did the first disciples, who wearied of their watch. Even our ministry can offer itself as a convincing excuse to be neglectful, since our exertions for the kingdom tempt us to imagine that our work may supply for our prayer. But without prayer we drift, and our…

I read Paul Elie’s The Life You May Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage almost a year ago and found it a very interesting book. That time around, I sped through the book as it just captured my attention. Since I’ve set it aside for almost a year and I’ve been pestering Vanessa,…

The not-so-biblical biblical baccalaureate GetReligion, a blog dealing with religion in media, commented Tuesday on a story out of St. Louis that Lindbergh High School will be having two baccalaureates this year. Baccalaureates, traditionally, are religious services held before graduation. After the division between church and state became more defined, school-sponsored baccalaureates overall disappeared. Some…

Note: I try to make this site useful and interesting to the general public but every so often, I just want to have a personal post. This is one such post. I have known for a good while that many people close to me would be leaving at the end of this semester. This reality…

Looking at sex and sexuality as simply a socially constructed device is fundamentally flawed. The failure to look beyond that when determining what exactly sex and sexuality is a failure to actually attempt to determine anything. Looking at the sexual aspects of religion as simply devices of oppression is also fundamentally disordered and causes great…

Wired News has a editorial regarding online relationships that I found very interesting. In my very limited experience, having a relationship via instant message, whether that is friendship or something more, is an extremely powerful medium. I’ll completely grant that it lacks the personal interaction, the personal touch. It lacks the ability to hear the…