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Friday, March 26, 2010

Chastity and Political Orthodoxy in 1984

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Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual Puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world ...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Meditation and the turn outward

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Some speak of meditation as being a practice that brings us into awareness with our "true self." The idea of a true self seems tri...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Coming Attractions -- 1984

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The novel for next month is George Orwell's 1984 . I read Animal Farm in the context of attending a private, Christian (evangelical) hi...
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Monday, March 08, 2010

Works of the Law

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I am going to deliberately confuse my translation of Paul: "Knowing that a person is not dikaioutai through the works of the law but o...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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Thus far in my novel project, I have not yet encountered a novel that illustrates so tragically the brokenness of a single individual. In Vl...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

A few thoughts on grace....and Lolita

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I just finished my reading of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita . It was better than I had expected, more powerful and even (dare I say it...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Revelations and religious experience

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Speaking in tongues. Ecstatic prayers. Calm assurance. Visions. Revelations. What to make of religious experience. Neurosis, psychosis, or p...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Kinesthetic Prayers

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As far as I understand, most contemporary theories of education understand that there are different learning styles and different learners. ...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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We find Alice tired and bored. Sitting on the bank on a hot day, she wants nothing to do with her sister’s book; it has no pictures or conve...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Haiti Relief

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Generosity and giving can result in a certain power over others. Such was the gist of Jean Vanier’s comments in his interview with Krist Tip...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Let me make this perfectly unclear: the new words of Jesus

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Of late, my faith, my pilgrimage, seems to have been taking me in the general direction of creativity and imagination. I am starting to awak...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

N.T. Wright and Cultural Masturbation

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Okay, here's a quickie....uhm....I mean, a quick post. I came across a blog by Julie Clawson, Why N.T. Wright is Wrong about Social Medi...
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