Theopoetic

Have recently ordered Theopoetic by Amos Wilder, my curiousity piqued by L.B.C. Keefe-Perry’s animated ruminations on the Theopoetics website.  Keefe-Perry also has a new website, The Image of Fish, which I believe will spark many constructive conversations.  Check it out.

Sometimes Art Comes From What We Walk Upon

This clip has been circulating all over the net, including two on my Google Reader, PeterRollins.net and Solar Crash.  I don’t think I have anything particularly insightful to add in addition to the “wows” and “OMGs!” I’ve seen elsewhere regarding this fascinating artist from Ukraine.  I will say that I took the opportunity to show [...]

Coffee and Theopoetics

Today a day for my mind to ramble and explore.  Currently reading Speaking in Parables by Sallie McFague and The Orthodox Heretic by Peter Rollins, both of which explore the metaphoric implications of parables.  Upon researching Sallie McFague’s bacckground online, came across Theopoetics(dot)net, a fascinating site exploring the relationship between postmodernism, narrative, poetry and theology.
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4000 Miles for a Pint with the Inklings…

While I was in England, I had a much anticipated pint at the Eagle and Child, otherwise known as the Bird and Baby, in Oxford.  This was a pub where my two favorite authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis used to meet and share ideas, a place which had a role in the creation of [...]

Jazz vs. Zombies!

Prevented myself from buying Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz, not because I dislike Don Miller, but due to the impetus of needing to buy something to assuaged my consumerist mindset, which as of late, with serious work to procrastinate on and illusionary time enough to justify that procrastination, has led me by the collar and [...]

Currently Reading:How (Not) To Speak of God by Peter Rollins

I waited eagerly for the delivery of How (Not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins in my mailbox (I still have this childish anticipation for things coming in the mail, which is why I’m pretty much addicted to Amazon.com).  The book has been around for a few years, so I am just now [...]

When No Escape is a Good Thing and “The Word”- George MacDonald Reflections 9 & 10

9: Escape is Hopeless
The man whose deeds are evil, fears the burning.  But the burning will not come the less that he fears it or denies it.  Escape is hopeless.  For Love is inexorable.  Our God is a consuming fire.  He shall not come out till he has paid the uttermost farthing
10: The Word
But herein [...]

Sinai- Reflections on G. MacDonald 6

And is not God ready to do unto them even as they fear, though with another feeling and a different end from any which they are capable of supposing?  He is against sin: insofar as, and while, they and sin are one, He is against them- against their desires, their aims, their fears, and their [...]

Why Read? Talk to Jack…

The first day back from Winter Break went rather well, I think.  Though we are still winding down the 1st semester (3rd marking period doesn’t technically start until Jan. 20th- I know, weird, right?), I broke out the new syllabus to share my objectives and expectations for the rest of the year with my students.  [...]

Inexorable Love: Reflections on G. MacDonald 2

Nothing is inexorable but love.  Love which will yield to prayer is imperfect and poor.  Nor is it then the love that yields, but its alloy…For love loves unto purity.  Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds.  Where loveliness is incomplete, and love cannot love its fill of loving, [...]