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Joan of Arcadia

Posted on January 1, 2017 by

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…

Posted in Church for Writers Tagged with: God, Joan of Arcadia, writing and the spirit

The Necessity of Hope

Posted on September 17, 2016 by

kenkuhlken

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…

Posted in Church for Writers Tagged with: Christianity, God, Plato, science, The Brothers Karamazov

I’m and artist and so are you

Posted on August 18, 2014 by

kenkuhlken

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.…

Posted in Writers and Writing Tagged with: art, beauty, God, love, truth, writing

Question People and Answer People

Posted on March 31, 2014 by

kenkuhlken

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…

Posted in Church for Writers Tagged with: doubt, faith, God

Get Real

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

kenkuhlken

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,…

Making room for the Infinite

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

kenkuhlken

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…

Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: Christ, Dallas Willard, God, Kierkegaard, meditation, sacrifice, silence

Where Is Truth?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

kenkuhlken

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…

Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: Brother Lawrence, God, inwardness, Kierkegaard, solitude, Tae Kwon Do, Thomas Merton

How to Love Whom?

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

kenkuhlken

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…

Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: faith, God, Jesus, Kierkegaard, love, obedience

Coach Kierkegaard

Posted on November 6, 2011 by

kenkuhlken

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…

Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: Christ, clergy, genius, God, golf, Kierkegaard

Either/Or

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

kenkuhlken

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…

Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: Christ, God, illusion, Kierkegaard, Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, truth

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