If you follow this site then you are likely aware of these books and maybe already own them. If you need one more voice to say you won’t find a better use of a $20 bill…this is it.
Continue reading “Three and Two Half Books That You Don’t Want To Miss”(Update: Since the post, I have returned my Twitter account to unprotected status.)
The purpose of this post is to respond to Twitter inquiries or complaints by referencing this link in my Twitter replies. The ability to insert a link is preferable to the tedious redundancy of long threads. Consistent with my method of rule making it does not require how you must think, speak, and act. It explains how I hope to think, speak, and act…when I am at my best.
Continue reading “For Twitter People Only”On how Christians ought not allow their words to be controlled by any Worldly Power, and how every Christian ought to be multilingual—fluent in both the language of the World and the language of the Church.
Whatever crisis we awaken to this morning…war, pandemic, climate change, economic collapse, or whatever the world may bring…if we look about to our neighbors in this modern world for answers then we are looking to people who are in the throes of the same enigma as we are. Ask me how to respond to the pandemic and I will offer you whatever words of direction I can, but understand that I am standing in the same fog as you. Such is always the case when we look to modern writers to find solutions to modern problems.
On how Christians ought not allow their words to be controlled by any Worldly Power, and how every Christian ought to be multilingual—fluent in both the language of the World and the language of the Church.
Continue reading “Words and the Worldly part 1”On January 6 I thought it might be helpful to offer a small commentary through social media on the great divide between us. I was wrong. I deactivated my Twitter account and removed its share button from this site. I went silent on Facebook. From January 7 to this day I have not read or watched one news story. That is the privilege of a hermit preacher.
Mark 16:1-4
When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?’ When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back.
I saw a star slide down the sky,
Blinding the north as it went by,
Too burning and too quick to hold,
Too lovely to be bought or sold,
Good only to make wishes on
And then forever to be gone.
————Sarah Teasdale
During a brief social media hiatus I enjoyed one of my favorite pastimes. I spent time with a two year old. We drew rainbows in the sand.
A lot of people either don’t grow up with church or live only on its fringes. They do not understand our customs. They do not know what goes on inside our walls. They only know that we are there, and they imagine we will be there should they ever decide they need us.
Hermit Preacher 