PAUL RICOEUR: “You know, the different ages of life meet with different kinds of happiness and unhappiness, as well as with, how should I say, different traps. The two traps of old age are sadness and boredom. Sadness? “It is so sad that one must leave all this, that one…
We used to live in a little cubical building, nave’s length from a bell tower. An aisle’s length, not quite, but every friday night it was a measured space, although not by paces; in concussions. From 6pm to 8pm the Ringers would gather – I imagine from curious little…
The Highwayman lies severed, cut down in the way, shorn from his mount. And the hand that did it rises trembling. And the eyes rise trembling to behold it To meet their accuser’s eyes wide. And trembling. It was a rough deed, done with razorrrs Watched with glass, that…
> THE PREACHER’S PRAYER LORD, when my heart is slow to feel, And when my lips are slow to speak, And yet my heart still Thee doth seek, And yet my lips would Thee reveal; Then send Thy gracious Spirit, Lord, That He may my dull heart inspire, And touch…
Thesis:the biblical-canonical concept of friendship is not incompatible with radical different-ness between the friends. [This train of thought begins here [http://andersonpost.org/2011/07/the-equal-of-his-friends/]and it part of a series I’ve been working on since last year. You can find earlier articles by searching for the…
Defence of the Defence (2 sentences) [http://papermind.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/pilgrim_aidfpp.jpg]1. Not the ‘approximate’, although it is worthy in its way. It is an attribute of God to be proximate to all and thus (a)proximate to human understanding. There are pleasant idle hours…
[http://papermind.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/spoken-word_unl5h5.jpg]I got distracted in the last post… It’s hard not too with so many different voices demanding to be heard. The image of the mechanically inspired prophet (ear-cocked, stylus at the ready, listening for the whispers from the beyond)…
[http://papermind.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/fra-angelico1_mrp22c.jpg]For any Old Testament passage a crucial interpretive context is that surrounding the advent of Jesus. This has two dimensions, it involves understanding both how the people who were reading the OT and calling on God to be faithful to…