The Gospel of Circumference
It’s often amazing to me how simple connexions, made in a moment, can last a lifetime. One individual’s influence for good is immeasurable. The longer a lever that individual has, the broader good...
View ArticleThe progress and directions of Radio Beloved
Radio Beloved turns six months old this month. I thought that I’d take a little time to step back from what I’ve been working on and posting lately versus my original intentions. Radio Beloved was...
View ArticleBarth Thoughts
I’m currently a few chapters into Karl Barth‘s Epistle to the Romans; it was the work that launched him into the theological spotlight in Germany in 1919 when first published. From Wikipedia, Barth...
View ArticleExcerpt on faith
The following is an excerpt and draft of a much longer essay on nihilism and existentialism in the light of the Gospel that I am currently composing. Faith is perhaps one of the most difficult subjects...
View ArticleUpdate on recent work.
Of late I’ve spent a great deal of my time for personal writing working on a longer essay which will hopefully be published in an LDS journal. This has understandably cut into the time I’ve spent on...
View Article“As the sparks fly upward” Part I
What we now defensively regard as constituting individuality is likely to be significantly refined (Maxwell, The Inexhaustible Gospel, 200). It has been my perennial temptation (fiercely resisted) to...
View Article“As the sparks fly upward” Part II
Part I is available here. “I know not, save the Lord commanded me.” Faith is perhaps one of the most difficult subjects to coherently discuss in religious discourse. It is a difficulty exacerbated by...
View Article“As the sparks fly upward” Part III
Part I; Part II. “For by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Death is universal. Death is common to all creation. Death is human and of the Fall. Death is individual—each person must grapple with the...
View Article“As the sparks fly upward” Parts IV–V
“If any man live in Christ, he is a new creature.” By reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the...
View Article“As the sparks fly upward” Part VI
“How long shall rolling waters remain impure?” “And for all this, nature is never spent” (Hopkins). We are not ex nihilo, but ex lux. Insofar as we are anything except that which we are not, insofar as...
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