June 2010
9 posts
genesis 16 || no hands
Hagar names the One who spoke to her at the well. “You are El-roi,” a name meaning god of seeing. To name something is to give it meaning, ascribing value that is only found in the experience you have with the Other. This is the place where her eyes were opened and so whatever god was there is a god interested in seeing, bringing people to new places where things are colored with new...
genesis 4 || salvific birth
As humans were made from the ground so the man is to go back to the ground to work. This poetic end to chapter three throws us into chapter four where we find Cain working the soil. The soil reminds the reader of both the beginning and the end of humans. It is not surprising then that Abel is the first to be returned to the ground, his death symbolizing the disruption that exist in human...
just one'a those
I get a breathless feeling sometimes when I am going through something that is uncomfortable. It is lased with anxiety, that breathless breath. It came not because I was short of breath but because I couldn’t see where I was, why I am… and other existential questions like these. It was one’a those weeks. In the mornings I awoke having felt as if I hadn’t slept, yet...
eyes for you
i got brass tatooed on my finger tips seein if our smiles fit
shared two drinks today kept talking till you say
i want to be here too here with you
and its all right and all wrong singin you another song
of all the ways and everyday on the border of unpromised grace
i researched how to sit next to you not quite sure how to follow through
so let’s ride let’s ride let’s ride in...
how we spend our days || an intertextual study of...
INTRODUCTION: TELOS AND ETHOS—DEATH AS A SHADOW OF THE NOW
Annie Dillard once said, “How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.” The telos of which we aim, is in some certain way, connected to the ethos of our lived experience. And so it is, when we reflect on our own end—termination or death—the way we die is in some certain way connected to how we have lived. The writers of the...
