
Thoughts
“There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.”
- Annie Dillard
Personal Writing
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I walk to the bathroom at 11:23 and going through my tiny kitchen notice the smell of an entire bunch of rotting bananas. I do not think I ate one banana because they were green and therefore not good. But due to my negligence, they passed through the valley of tasting good…
Elliot the skeleton wanted to hang out at the local coffee shop. He liked going there where people were. They were either busy and writing and reading or busy and talking. And even if they didn’t talk to him it was nice to be around. It reminded him of his human days when he was …
A book review.
In Whose Community? Which Interpretation? Merold Westphal addresses the value of philosophical hermeneutics for the church. Westphal reminds the (presumably Christian) audience that no one is “safe” from the influence of postmodern philosophy in the church; contemporary philosophy influences popular culture and renders the notion of detached interpretation impossible…