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I prefer to stay with Christ

Not what things mean so much as why things mean – for the sake of beauty, for the sake of love. I do not believe – despite my modern skepticism – that real truth (the pure unadulterated kind) exists as something to be palpably grasped and fondled with. We know nothing for sure; we only [...]

hastening to kiss one another

i am presently working in the most conflicted land in recent human history. yesterday a muslim man – who brought me tea – asked me how many children i had. my beard makes me appear older… it also gets rubbed by other men who want to show me – what i believe to be – [...]

Only dead things are unconditional.

Love is alive, and like everything alive it must be taken care of, it must be nourished and nurtured. Love often dies… and becomes that limp hand that can no longer clutch or caress. Why? Because we settle? because we take it for granted, disillusioned by the myth of the unconditional and the security of [...]

Upon contemplation on the only endless human quest…

Futility of futilities: Truth. It is a boundless complexity so far beyond our capacities to understand that i find myself strongly in line with the apophatic theologians of the early 20th century (A branch of mysticism that emphasizes the fact that God/Truth cannot be known). The wisest man is the one who humbles himself before [...]

Christopher Hitchens: The case against religion.

I was Reading Christopher Hitchens the other day, “God is not Great: The Case against Religion.”  I like a lot of what he has to say, despite his constant urge to throw in pontifical adjectives everywhere. It is amusing to read because much of it is true and much of it is entertaining. I do [...]

Our Torture, Our War, and Our world

Tolerance in a sociopolitical context – there is a point where it must stop. I believe those who lived through the Second Great War just 70 years ago would have much to tell the people of today. They would pity us and our fairy-tale worlds. Have we forgotten our history? Have we forgotten how we [...]

War, Just War…

A Swiss businessman told a new friend of mine that if there were no soldiers – there would be no wars. Now I think almost everyone reading this would agree that it would be like saying, if there were no policemen – there would be no crime. A few weeks ago the wife of my [...]