July 2010
13 posts
marriage & mercy || a reading of exodus
Bound || in one direction
To study Exodus is to listen in on a story made up of history clothed in faith[1], pieced together by some capable characters, and resolved by a God who is identified mostly in terms of action and being for a people what they couldn’t be for themselves. It is a story of liberation with a dominant oppressive superpower getting theirs. One of the main characters, the hero...
“the right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. if we want...”
– wendell berry
staging presence
I finished a class last night. For some in the class it was the last class session of their seminary career. There was tears, even for those who have plenty of time at this place. Interestingly, when I visited the school two years ago with my friend Sean we sat in on a class that just so happened to be the same professor, the same class and the same week of the summer as the one I experienced last...
reckless
I am struck by possibility this morning. Behind this possibility is change, the shifting of consciousness and terrain that used to define the categories we operated in. I know that all sounds abstract and maybe event nuanced, so, allow me to speak concretely. Things are changing inside me, shifting, as it were. Maybe it is expressed outside too, but there is an energy that has been lit and has...
lets ride || PR no.1 →
wrote and recorded today havent been doing this...
with all watching
How evil he seemed, with a care for no one. Yet with all watching he began to speed away before she could close the door. She was half in the car and wondering yet trusting the car wouldn’t move until she was safe. She had already taken the time to fasten her little girl in the back—the child bobbing up and down excited to go some where even if it was with this impatient boy-of-a-man...
“god doesn’t have plans for your life … but children usually...”
– j. goldingay
normality
I’m sitting on the couch and Jon walks by with his gallon of water. I can hear Cake playing in the back ground, someone is getting hyped for work in sounds. Jon stops and asks a simple question—one I think to be loaded with significance. He asks, “What is a pirates favorite letter in the alphabet?” I begin to ponder as Jon begins to smile and before I can land my thoughts...
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wet pavement
in the vortex drifting closer to you
there’s about two things that haven’t died
caught up in the trouble of a few
crawling through sheets and waking up
from the perplexed nuance—time spent in wonder
and tumbling hail teasing out meaning
these bitter sayings that find little tractionÂ
but we’re spinning out now—from the existential high
leaning into...