Hate Speech and the Gay Marriage Issue
Hate Speech and the Gay Marriage Issue Over the course of this semester it has pained me to watch the invasion of hate speech into our community by outside groups appearing to believe that the interruption of events or attacks on our students will serve some of their goals. Though I doubt the tactics will […]
Equality
Yesterday was an important and historic day for equality in marriage rights for thousands of North Carolinians, and for many families who have been unable to enjoy the same legal recognition and protection of other families. With the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the issue of the circuit courts decision, the way in paved […]
Ir-Ratio Christi
For the past few days I have been working on a response to “Sex, Faith and Utter Confusion.” In truth I have enjoyed poring over my old philosophy texts and rereading the writing of thinkers I have not read since my seminars. However, in the drafting of my long discussion of metaphysics, ethics and moral […]
Lonely
The oxford dictionary gives the following definitions of loneliness; 1) Sadness because one has no friends or company:feelings of depression and loneliness 2) The fact of being without companions; solitariness:the loneliness of a sailor’s life 3) (Of a place) the quality of being unfrequented and remote; isolation:the loneliness of the farm. For a word we hear used so frequently, we seem to have lost […]
A God Between The Stars.
“They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.” ― Robert Frost It is strange how depression twists the colors of the world. It is like a foggy, broken glass, colored with burning smoky haze […]
Christmas Ashes
It is a strange thing to look upon a box of ashes. Covered cardboard, soft to the touch yet firm in its structure. To know that inside those dark brown walls the total physical sum of a man’s body, who breathed and spoke words in that very room in the week before, lay gathered in […]
Faith and Failure
It is strange to me how connected success and Christian culture have become. In book after book, TV sermon after TV sermon, popular Christian culture seems to attach the idea of achieving fame, wealth and power to our Christian faith. Our faith seems to be more about winning and achieving. Jesus seems to have become […]
Newtown
What can you say in the wake of the horrors of Newtown, Connecticut? It is unthinkable, and breaks the heart to the core. So many ripped from this world all to soon: Charlotte, Daniel, Olivia, Josephine, Ana, Dylan, Madeleine, Catherine, Chase, Jesse, James, Grace, Emilie, Jack, Noah, Caroline, Jessica, Avielle, Benjamin, Allison. We believe in […]
Thankful – even in the end of things…
It is often scary when we get to the end of things. There is something about the closing of chapters and of periods in our life that makes us lament their passing. Perhaps it is that we fear what is beyond. Perhaps it is that we become old friends with the joy and pain […]
Just Stop….
It has been an amazing start to the semester. I am having a hard time believing that an entire week of this fall 2012 has already passed. Over the past days at WL we have heard a lot about peace. I am sure at this point, even a week in, you are tired (I know […]