I think of my grandfather of late. He raised a family of five daughters, one son, tending a few acres of land in Johnson Country, North Carolina. My mother once mentioned how happy he felt upon purchasing his first tractor. He no longer had to walk behind a mule, in order to plow a…
Let us beware of thinkingthat the world eternally creates new things. There are no eternally enduring substances;Matter is as much of an error as the God of the Eleatics. But when shall we ever be done with our caution and care? When will all these shadows of God cease to darken our minds?When will…
Monday after Mother’s day. Reflection, musing, thoughtful consideration is a human trait. I doubt that dogs are able to perform such mental acrobatics as they are not blessed, and troubled with language and syntax. It is natural for us homo sapiens to wonder to ourselves about the origin, about the essence of everything, to…
New struggles — After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave –a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. –And we –we still have…
Another discussion among friends on the matter of abortion, politics, women’s rights. I need to hear the words of others to get a wide angle view of our condition presently. I took away from the discussion wonderment, how evangelicals once disposed to treat others kindly, practicing their personal piety privately, have become indifferent to…
Music as an advocate — “I am thirsting for a composer,”said an innovator to his disciple, “who would learn my ideas from me and transpose them into his language;that way. I should reach men’s ears and hearts for better. With musicone can seduce mento every error and every truth:who could refute a tone?” –“‘Then…
I learned by chance of the 2019 death of a eminent evangelical theologian. I am often surprised by what google comes up with. I met Geisler twice. I recall spending a few minutes in his office when considering whether to enroll at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Some years later, Norman Geisler was a guest…
AMX+, Netflix, HBOmax, Youtube TV, Hulu, Disney+, Peacock, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, ESPN Plus, Apple TV… Now and formerly— What good is all the art of our works of art if we lose that higher art, the art of festivals? Formerly, all works of art adorned the great festival road of humanity, to commemorate high…
Prose and poetry— It is noteworthythat the great masters of prosehave almost always been poets, too–if not publicly than at least secretly, in the ”closet.” Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. For it is an uninterrupted,well mannered war with poetry:all of its attractions depend on the way in which poetryis…
Art and nature — The Greeks (or at least the Athenians) liked to hear people speak well. Nothing distinguishes them so thoroughly from non-Greeks as does this truly greedy craving. Even of passion on the stage they demanded that it should speak well, and they endured the unnaturalness of dramatic verse with rapture. In…
