On Nature, Covenant & Words
This spark of this is the Eastern Christian, especially Greek, emphasis on the Incarnation and its role in the salvation wrought by Christ. A quick gloss of the topic is thus: Christ, being God and...
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On Being an Alien in the City of Man
In this world there exists two cities, the city of God and the city of Man. As I’ve said elsewhere, the citizenship to each belong to the heart. In the former, one is born from On High, with a heart...
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House of Cards: An Expose on the City of Man
I recently finished watching the current season of House of Cards, and thought it was due to give my reflection on the series. The show is dark and sordid. It rocks your soul in seeing the capacity of...
View ArticlePorn
“I’ll know it when I see it” These famous words were uttered by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on a trial of public obscenity. The case dealt with the ambiguity of the term “pornography” and...
View ArticleCitizenship is in the Heart
I’ve written many negative pieces on what I don’t believe in regards to the Christian’s placement and regard for the world we live in. I thought I’d write a more positive piece, describing some of what...
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Noble Sins & Low-Comedy
Augustine would dedicate a lot of ink, in his City of God, towards the point of taking his Pagan Roman criticism seriously. The Gothic invasion of Rome, led by Alaric in 410, would devastate the...
View Article“Receive What You Are”: Community, Identity, and the Lord’s Supper
In a Sermon, Augustine describes the Eucharist, and through which he talks about the unity and catholicity of the Church. The two are a single subject to him. So here is the relevant section: Remember:...
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Blessings of Future Past
Today’s thought is on Jesus’ command to constantly ask for forgiveness. This appears all throughout many gospels, and this can seem a bit odd in light of certain considerations, such as: what about the...
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Plato was a Thief
Through a couple conferences I’ve been to, through my congregation’s ecclesial network, and the conversation with a couple others, the phrase ‘metaphor’ has come up more than once. The context of this...
View ArticleQuick Meditation
I was reading through some of my old work when I stumbled upon this quote I pulled from Augustine’s Confessions. It reminded me of my own conversion from the torrent of darkness to the Son’s...
View ArticleThe Cult of the Empty Shrine: American Enlightenment Theology
*This draws upon the work of William T. Cavanaugh* Within the Civil Religion of America, there have been two major impulses that draw men to live and die for the glory of the country. Both have left...
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“For the Joy Set Before Him”: Loving & Living Humanly
This post is working with some themes from this article. When a man asks Jesus what the greatest commandment is, the Messiah responds with love. He tells him, and us, his disciples, to love the LORD...
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Grabbing Egypt’s Gold: Truth & Culture on the Way (Addendum)
In the last post, I primarily spoke of how as Followers of the Way, we are freed from our particular cultures, and yet also able to use them for an ‘apology’ and proclaiming the Good News. However,...
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Grabbing Egypt’s Gold: Truth & Culture on the Way
Tertullian once asked, forcefully, what Jerusalem has to do with Athens? His question, with all the rhetorical flourish he could pull, was to rebuke the attempts to bring in Hellenic philosophical...
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Why Constantine?: Naivety and the Many Shades of Pelagius
In his later years, Augustine spent a majority of his time trying to combat an optimistic teaching from a British Monk. While he spent more time wrangling with mutations from the monk’s disciples (i.e....
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