Virgin Births and Naked Gospels

Over the past few days a cou­ple things have hap­pened: I’ve become supremely irri­tated at peo­ple con­stantly devalu­ing the vir­gin birth — it changes a lot if it didn’t hap­pen! I’ve also, upon rec­om­men­da­tion, picked up the book The Naked Gospel by Dr. Andrew Far­ley. I believe it’s with this book that I’ll start mak­ing more time for book reviews. As an aside, I’ve also picked up more of Peter Kreeft’s work (Socrates Meets Jesus, Mak­ing Sense out of Suf­fer­ing, Three Approaches to Abor­tion and Back to Virtue); I find the man an engag­ing writer and usu­ally spot on. Back to essays… And after that, per­haps a few things on the vir­gin birth, and a book…

Unable to Prepare for the Journey?

TRUTH It’s an Adven­ture, Not an Axiom. A Story Unfold­ing, Not a Tale Already Told. The Jour­ney Counts, Not the Des­ti­na­tion. Right? I came across this col­lec­tion of (emer­gent) catch­phrases dur­ing a forum dis­cus­sion which hap­pened this past week­end. There is a visual which goes along with it, which you can find here. The visual itself is, I think, self-evidently bril­liant (I highly rec­om­mend you look at the visual). The atti­tude towards truth that these catch-phrases con­vey is one I can never seem to take seri­ously. If I have a desire, or a thirst, to know the truth, then it seems to me obvi­ous that my ulti­mate end is the des­ti­na­tion. For how can we…

The Search for Answers and Meaning

Recently I’ve come to view cul­ture and soci­ety as a search for answers and mean­ing. It seems to me that this is some­thing I should have hap­pened upon a long time ago, how­ever, that’s of no con­se­quence now. What this means, though, is that how I approach post­moder­nity within Chris­tian­ity has changed some what, in the sense that, I think, I have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what exactly is going on. I’ve tried to cre­ate an illus­tra­tion or anal­ogy to cap­ture my thought process, so hope­fully what fol­lows does exactly that, rather than fail. In my illus­tra­tion I view real­ity as a very long hall­way. At the end of the hall­way is a door, behind which…