People who hate questions

I’ve always known that there was a cer­tain — and most assuredly, unrea­son­able — offense in ask­ing ques­tions. Not so much that the ques­tion itself was bad. I cer­tainly don’t want to say that at all, there is much good in questions–much to learn. Socrates, I think, was right for the most part, “the unex­am­ined life is not worth liv­ing”. And it is here that we find our prob­lem, and also the answer to why so many peo­ple... Read More

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).... Read More

Truth as a symptom

“The pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with ‘truth’ among emer­gents has often been pushed on them by their con­ser­v­a­tive crit­ics, pri­mar­ily because truth is a cen­tral con­cern of theirs. And their pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with truth is a symp­tom of their mod­ernism. They want the Bible to be unswerv­ingly fac­tual (here, truth equals fact), for if it is, then its claims about eter­nal sal­va­tion can­not be ignored. So they pub­lish... Read More

Galileo: Truth isn’t Absolute

I’ll be hon­est up front: this entry has almost noth­ing to do with Galileo. What this entry has every­thing to do with, how­ever, is the prob­lem I have with cer­tain peo­ple (notably authors and speak­ers) who call into ques­tion the nature of ‘truth’ through illus­tra­tions (Galileo being a favourite) which are in no way applic­a­ble to the nature of truth, how­ever rel­e­vant those illus­tra­tions may be with respect to... Read More