Author Archives: davetcourt

*as mentioned elsewhere in this space, these installments are my intention to get a very rough draft of a personal project I have been working on for a numbers of years (writing my life story) off the word d and somewhere where it could hold me accountable to doing something with it. At this pointContinue reading “My Life Story: Chapter 5”

Anyone taking a jaunt through the hallways and rooms of our home, the first thing that is likely to jump out is the sheer amount of attention our walls and shelves give to New York City. If asked, the reason for this visible presence woulld take the shape of a story. More specifically, the storyContinue reading “Once Upon a Time in America: How I Find My Relationship to America Changing, and How It Impacts My Feelings About the West”

Send Help (Sam Raimi)- The anticipated return of Raimi to what he does best, which is full on unfiltered horror/thriller mode. Don’t sleep on McAdams however, who seems charged up here to give Raimi some competition on that front. Whatever commentary it leaves slightly uncooked and underutilized it more than makes up for in entertainmentContinue reading “My February Watches”

My February Reads: Onesself in Another: Participation and Personhood by Susan Grove Eastman (Kobo e-book)A long time coming but my first Eastman book (although I was familiar with her writings through interviews and articles on her work on Paul). Eastman is a proponant of participationist theology/philosophy, which is the position I hold to myself, andContinue reading “My February Reads”

*as stated elsewhere in this space, I’ve been slowly putting a rough draft of a project I’ve been working on forever (writing my life’s story) down in this space where I can let it breathe and have it hold me accountable to finishing it someday. Emphasize “rought draft,” but here is another installment: I imagineContinue reading “My Life Story: Chapter 4”

*as mentioned elsewhere, last year I sarted to construct my life story. I’ve slowly been forcing myself to put some of the rudimentary writings, in all of its rough and unedited form, into this space so as to hold myself accountable to it. This is another entry: As I’ve already mentioned, memory is a peculiarContinue reading “Chapter 4: The Story of My Life”

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts in this space, I’ve been journeying through the Gospel of Mark this year, both with my church and with select authors/commentaries. Along this journey I’ve been trying to stay open to whatever God desires to say through this study and meditation. Sometimes the thoughts that come from this areContinue reading “What Goes in Must Come Out: Making Sense of Jesus’ Commentary on Purity Laws in Mark 7”

I was listening to an interview with Thi Nguyen, author of his newest book The Score: How To Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game, and it raised some intriguing questions regarding the role of “measures” when it comes to the way we experience life in this world. His passion is games (see his book Games: Agency AsContinue reading “Analyzing The Game of Life: How Prayer Becomes An Antidote To Our Need For Control”

Listening to Jack Garrett’s cover of the Waterboys’ “The Whole of the Moon” this morning. Was struck by this thought. 10 years ago I started my personal blog space as a way of grappling with the reality of turning 40, which for me had brought on a deeply felt existential crisis regarding this world andContinue reading “The Waterboys, The Whole of the Moon, and Seeing the Grace of the Stories That Shape Us”

The tagline for the book Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea by Samuel Miller McDonald says,“Progress is power. But our modern story of progress is a very dangerous fiction.” I have been listening to this on audio along with Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History and Adam Kucharski’s Proof: The Art and Science ofContinue reading “Why the Narratives We Tell Matter: Understanding The Myths of Progress, Capitalism, and Proofs”