…on earth as it is in heaven

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Repairing the World

An ongoing project… In a Religion News Service article by John Murawski, N.T. Wright asks: Have we gotten heaven all wrong? The article said: While heaven is indisputably God’s realm, it’s not some distantly remote galaxy hopelessly removed from human reality. In the ancient Judaic worldview, Wright notes, the two dimensions intersect and overlap so [...]

Sorry for the Inconvenience

I am toying with the idea of blogging again, but I wanted to first clean things up a bit. After tagging, editing, and deleting old posts on my blog, I was sorry to see them appear in my blog reader. I plan to continue editing and would appreciate advice on preventing edited posts from showing [...]

On Earth As It Is In Heaven

Occupy, protest, vote, join, reform, transform . . . Really? The flood of legitimate issues and causes to care deeply about is overwhelming. So many desperate needs. How can anyone truly make a difference? “On earth as it is in heaven.” A well-worn phrase, one that perhaps we are numb to. Earth – visible, tangible, [...]

To Be or Not To Be?

That really is the question. A few thoughts about being and non-being… First, George MacDonald: “There could have been no darkness but for the light. Without God there would not even have been nothing; there would not have existed the idea of nothing, any more than any reality of nothing, but that He exists and [...]

A Good Place to Start Again

I will likely write an update post soon, but for now, I wanted to post this prayer from yesterday’s daily office because I like it and I want to remember it. Gracious Father, we pray for your holy catholic church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth, with all peace. Where it is corrupt, [...]

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