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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)”

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” —Genesis 17:17 There is a dialogue set up in our faith. One voice says, “Can you imagine!” The otherContinue reading “Lent and The Promise of New Creation”

Film Journal 2023: BrotherDirected by Clement VirgoWhere to watch: now playing at Mcgilvary Cinemas; watch for a streaming or VOD release in the near future This is the first I’ve seen from Virgo, who directed last year’s Dahlmer. Its the second film however that I’ve seen in the last two years set in Scarborouh (theContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: Brother”

Film Journal 2023: Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming With David LettermanDirected by Morgan NevilleWhere to watch: Disney+ “There is no them. There’s only us.” For as long as I can remember U2 has existed as a sort of larger than life and largely undefinable enigma. As someone who grew up in thoseContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming With David Letterman”

Film Journal 2023: John Wick Chapter 4Directed by Chad StahelskiWhere to watch: now playing in theaters Where this stands in terms of the larger franchise will be subjective opinion of course, but I do think it’s fair to say that the fourth entry in the series reflects a natural progression in the story. There’s theContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: John Wick Chapter 4”