Category: The Ruminations
-
Tolkien coined the term “subcreation.” How do you bring a little more order to a disordered world?
-
Pain can shrink your solar system down to a cycle of relived memories every seven days. But what could a miracle do?
-
What if aesthetic moments were God’s “stories” about “where” we’re headed? Songs that give us chills, laughter that brings us to tears—what if those were just an anticipation of what Arriving will be like?
-
If I don’t like what I see when the sun comes up, can I just go on insisting that “it must still be night, because this isn’t what ‘day’ is supposed to look like”?
-
Hero’s Journey motifs in C.S. Lewis’ work prompt an imaginary evangelistic encounter between him and Joseph Campbell.
-
Christmas means God is more like the face of another person than he is like a blazing, supermassive star. Knowing the “truth” about him might come about by means more like relationship than reasoning.
-
If laziness is the path my personal road takes when I stray from the faithful way of love, then—for me—laziness is a path to hell.
-
How old does a child need to be before we can “trust” their declaration of personal faith in Jesus?
-
The lo-fi worldview says that the common joys are real, that the mundane comforts are not a lie; it says that, somehow, something like a slow morning with a hot mug in the living room isn’t gone forever—and it can’t be.
Weaker Brother 