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“Don’t try to defeat your opposition, focus in winning the audience.” Been thinking about this a lot. McKnight doesn’t apply this solely to high profile adversaries. Rather he applies it to any thought, teaching, conviction ect that you see to be crucially important, regardless of what that might be. In truth, we all have opposition.Continue reading “Don’t Defeat Your Oppostion, Win The Audience: Thoughts on The Discourse of Our Lives”

This article talks about a Christ Hermeneutic, and addresses these verses: And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:27) If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, howContinue reading “A Jesus Hermeneutic: A Torah Shaped Story”

Film Journal 2023: Beau Is AfraidDirected by Ari Aster There will be lots of people, I’m sure who will hate this film. And I get it. It’s the sort of film you have to vibe with or it’s going to end up feeling like a bit of a bludgeon. To get on the wave lengthContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: Beau Is Afraid”

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” (Mere Christianity, Bk. III, chap. 10, “Hope”) This argument from desire has long become a trope in the world of skeptics, who have dismissed the argument as fodder.Continue reading “Why I Believe: Revisiting Desire as An Argument For The Existence Of God”

In his book Forgiveness: An Alternative Account , Mathew Potts suggests that at the crossroads of forgiveness and promise lies a necessary appeal to newness, or new beginnings. What binds these two ideas together is the very thing that has been jettisoned by tendencies to read forgiveness as the promise, which is action, or one’sContinue reading “Forgiveness and Resurrection: At The Crossroads of New Beginnings”

“For Nietzsche pain is a mnemonic.” And as Potts outlines in his book Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, this recourse to pain “all begins in the human capacity to make promises.” For Nietzsche, “To inspire trust in his promise to repay and guarantee the sanctity of his promise, the indebted promiser pledges to his creditors “hisContinue reading “Matthew Ichihashi Potts And An Alternative Account of Forgivness: A Reflection On Forgiveness as An Act of Mourning”

I have started this book (Forgivness: An Alternative Account by Matthew Ichihashi Potts) as part of my Holy Week reading. In the introduction Potts makes the proposition- “If forgiveness is real, then it’s a problem.” He goes on to say,“Forgiveness as it is typically understood definitionally defies our ethical vocabulary and destabilizes our moral foundations…Continue reading “Reimaging Forgiveness: Finding A Way into the Easter Story”

“To mourn Jesus in at least one sense is to seek some habitable meaning for and from his death in our own world.” Potts suggests that forgivness and redemption are categorically different, even though we have become conditioned in the modern west to read them as one in the same. It is on this basisContinue reading “Good Friday Mourning”

Reading Journal 2023: Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from MisaabekongAuthor: Linda Legarde Grover In the waning days of summer 2022 my wife and i hopped in the car and took a drive up the Michigan peninsula to spend a few days at the famed Mackinac Island. Michigan wasn’t new to us, but the island was,Continue reading “Reading Journal 2023: Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong”

“There is something about the Gospels unlike anything else in the whole Bible. The books of the prophets of the Old Testament, often divided into major and minor prophets, record what the prophets said. We learn very little about their biographies. Our four Gospels are a bit like the vignettes of the patriarchs and MosesContinue reading “The Story of Our Lives, The Story of Jesus (Scott McKnight on The Gospel of John)”