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COVID has taught me something about my understanding of Christian faith.
The film “Of Gods And Men” opens with a quote on the screen superimposed over a dusky scene of hills and mountains in the distance. The sun is breaking faintly through the clouds on the horizon.
Every year for many years (most things in my life these days seem to be “for many years”) I have written a Christmas story for Christmas Day that seeks to communicate something about the nature of this season to children.
We turned our face. We despised him. We esteemed him stricken by God and afflicted. And it wasn’t the truth.
See caution at the beginning of “The Mystical And Visionary Thinking Of Teilhard de Chardin #1” https://inaspaciousplace.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/the-mystical-and-visionary-thinking-of-teilhard-de-chardin-19/
Ross Douthat of the New York Times seems to be getting into a bit of a state about his Pope.
Labels are generally caricatures of the positions they purport to represent. But they can serve as useful short hand in an attempt to understand complex movements in human culture.
In the words he is reported to have spoken in John 5:19-24, Jesus utilizes a curious teaching technique. He refers to himself in the third person, using the circumlocution “the Son”.
Five-year-old Amy woke and cried out in the night. Bleary-eyed her father stumbled into Amy’s bedroom and sat on the side of her bed to comfort her.
In A Spacious Place 
No Politics Please
December 22, 2012 in Current Comment | Tags: Incarnation, Omnipresence, Politics, Psalm 139, Social Issues | 1 comment
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