Believe to Reason

Tubal Cain: Do you really think you can protect yourself from me in that? Noah: It”s not protection from you…. Tubal Cain: I have men at my back. And you stand alone and defy me? Noah: I”m not alone. (Dialog from Noah, Directed by Darren Aronofsky; Written by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel) Since becoming…

Celebrant: Father in heaven, it is right that we should give you thanks and glory. You are the one God, living and true. Through all eternity you live in unapproachable light. Source of all life, beauty, truth and goodness, you have created all things, to fill your creatures with every blessing and your redeemed children…

God has set eternity in men‘s hearts. But even still man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end. (Ecc. 3:11) Well, the hills are alive with the sound of musings. Fighting fundamentalists on both sides of the theological/epistemological divide are either condemning or defending the fever dream that is director and…

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” George Orwell, 1984 In Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, the fascist government of Oceania and its enigmatic dictator Big Brother attempt to brainwash the masses to accept non sequiturs like “war is peace” and “ignorance is strength.”  But…

It’s in His light where she sees light and beholds things as they are. With singled eye, her form grows bright, moon-bride to the Morning Star.   No glory hers, no image fine without the Bridegroom’s light. As cross the sky He runs His course, burning towards His wedding night.   When she’s complete, each…

“The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.” Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903-1974) English intellectual, literary critic and writer, editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon. Connolly’s quote is a profound one – and never more true…

Science and mathematics run parallel to reality. They symbolize it, they squint at it, but never encompass it. What an explosion would unsky the world and rock the bones of men into little white fragments if the veil were lifted and Truth’s fulness revealed. Only a new creation and a new type of man can…

Worshipping the one true God is man’s first, last and eternal order of business, his very source of life and joy. Through worship we honor and enjoy intimacy with the Source of all that is transcendentally true, good and beautiful. It is, as William Temple observed, “the submission of all our nature to God. It…

In physics, the Fine-Structure Constant, also known (significantly I think) as ALPHA (α), is a fundamental physical constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction. It is also mysteriously related to a number of other fundamentals in physics: e.g. the square of the ratio of the elementary charge to the Planck charge; the ratio of…

One of the things I most appreciated about Phil Robertson’s comments to the snoots at GQ was the manner in which he colorfully pointed out the anatomical absurdity of homosex. (WARNING: please read no further if you are a child, pietist, or are easily offended.) Like a red-neck version of Elijah (who may well have…

As someone who has always loved mysteries and pattern mining, one of my greatest delights after having my lights turned on by the Holy Spirit was then applying that light to the study of scripture. I was astonished to find that compared to the Bible, Moby Dick or Finnegan”s Wake were amateurish when it came…

We’ve heard it countless times: the laudable advice to put first things first and remember “the reason for the season.” Christmas (from Crīstesmæsse, or “Christ’s mass”), after all, is first and last a celebration and remembrance of one of the two most important moments in history: the arrival of YHWH on our planet as a…