Zoe took a trip with her mom and left me alone for five days. Every one of those evenings, my entertainment was Joan of Arcadia, a television drama that aired for two seasons about a dozen years ago. The premise…
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The Necessity of Hope
I can’t seem to make myself stop beginning the day with a dose of world news. This morning I read about the many political assassinations in Russia, and about the thousands of deaths and nearly unfathomable misery the people of…
I’m and artist and so are you
An Artist? “We are God’s art, created in Christ Jesus to do works of beauty, which God has prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 “So God created mankind in his own image… male and female…” Genesis 1:27.…
Question People and Answer People
I have a new novel coming out soon, entitled The Good Know Nothing. The title came from a quote from novelist Paul Auster: “For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first…
Get Real
If Soren Kierkegaard wrote the truth, all we need do to overcome melancholy is get real. The catch is, getting real can be an arduous chore, which amounts to vanquishing despair. Kierkegaard taught that we all are inflicted with despair,…
Tagged with: depression, despair, finite, finite world, God, infinite, Kierkegaard, melancholy, Raymond Carver, Soren Kierkegaard, timidity
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Making room for the Infinite
Dallas Willard, in The Spirit of the Disciplines, advocates prayer, solitude and silence, meditation upon the life of Christ, sacrifice and service to others. He implies these disciplines will allow us to make room for what Soren Kierkegaard calls the…
Tagged with: Christ, Dallas Willard, God, Kierkegaard, meditation, sacrifice, silence
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Where Is Truth?
Soren Kierkegaard has been accused of forsaking reason in favor of searching for truth in the purely subjective. To that accusation, I say phooey. His argument concerning the objective and the subjective and their value in the search for truth…
Tagged with: Brother Lawrence, God, inwardness, Kierkegaard, solitude, Tae Kwon Do, Thomas Merton
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How to Love Whom?
One of the benefits of reading Soren Kierkegaard is, he compels us to learn to read differently. He won’t allow us to skim, or to overlook the depth of loaded words. So, the command, “You shall love your neighbor as…
Coach Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard cautioned believers to stay as far as possible from the Danish clergy, whose religion was “just about as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another bit of paper which…
Either/Or
In 1843, while contending with the melancholy that was a motive for the urgency and intensity of his work, Sören Kierkegaard wrote this journal entry: “The most important thing of all is that a man stands right toward God, does…
Tagged with: Christ, God, illusion, Kierkegaard, Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, truth
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