Theology

  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 6: Memory

    I long for the ideal of having a perfect memory… to see, hear and feel what I’ve already experienced. I want SO badly to remember things people told me. What is even more cruel is that I can remember some dreams that I’ve had at night better than the reality I lived the day before!

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  • ‘He Formed the Mountains…’

    On Wednesday, as I drove to Alamogordo for my latest balance therapy session, I listened to one of my favorite albums of music, John Michael Talbot’s “Troubadour of the Great King.” It was recorded early in JMT’s post-secular career, 1981, when the teachings of his Franciscan order were fresh in his mind. I had an

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  • Of Forest Fires, Sharp Wits & Verbal Mistakes

    “…though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites. And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the whole body, sets the course of life on fire,

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  • The Grace of God in Creation

    As I sit here at my table, drinking tea and watching the neighborhood birds through the window, I wanted to drop a quick thought on the subject of grace and creation. In Genesis 2, God gave Adam (and eventually Eve) care over His other creatures — a cool vice-regency role that believers in God should

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