They say that travel broadens the mind. On a surface level you'd think that's just about adding new information - about other cultures, places, and people. But I think the biggest thing it gives us is perspective on our own lives. This post is the first of many that will look at modernism and the limits Enlightenment rationalism has placed on our understanding of the world.
https://blogginglogos.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/the-excluded-middle-what-were-missing/
I'm about to start a series discussing the creation narrative of Genesis Chapter 1. The purpose of this translation is not to correct existing translations - but to listen more closely to the text. I will be discussing many of my choices in upcoming posts on Sundays.
https://blogginglogos.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/genesis-11-23-creation/
I'm starting a new series next week on the creation narrative in Genesis. This post is an introduction to the larger Expositional Series I hope to make a regular feature of my Sunday posts.
https://blogginglogos.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/expositions-series-introduction/
We live in a world of infinite and uncontrollable complexity. But what appears chaotic on the surface, at a deeper level, becomes much clearer. Once we accept that there is no way to guarantee certain outcomes, we are free to orient our lives around a different axis. Suddenly we realize, there is no "right choice".
https://blogginglogos.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/simple-faith-in-a-complex-world/
This post will wrap of my series on reframing the Creeds. It proposes a way we can move forward examining doctrines historically framed in substance metaphysics and how to faithfully reframe them in event metaphysics. I'm new to Wordpress, but I hope to have an index page that links these various posts together. Thanks to everyone who has read it so far. Please share your thoughts, I'd be glad to hear them.
https://blogginglogos.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/the-creeds-part-3-theology-as-witness/
In a world paralyzed by self-doubt we make ourselves appear wise by promoting fear.
What is an event ontology, and how might it be a better way of framing th faith?
This is my reflection on an article by Nicene Scholar Lewis Ayres, "Not Two Things". He gives some great clarification to the Nicene concept of Jesus's divinity, but I think the metaphysical framework on which the creeds are built add to a lot of the confusion that makes it necessary.
Lewis Ayres’ article “Not Two Things” provides much-needed clarification to Nicene Christology, when misrepresentation is all too common—not only among average churchgoers, but also in popular and …
Here is the beginning of what I've been building toward in previous posts. Here I will make the case that reframing the creeds within an event ontology can hold the witness of scripture more faithfully than the substance metaphysics we've inherited from the Plato and Aristotle.
The other day, I read a post about Julia Hill, who spent nearly 2 years in a tree to stop it from being cut down. That kind of care, which transcends all common sense of proportion, scandalizes some people - I see it as prophetic. Many people may quickly judge this act of care as neglect for some other area of concern, but I have found it is often for an area they are not themselves doing anything to change.
https://blogginglogos.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/reclaiming-the-discarded-image/
