Kontakion

It amazes me how much I still need to learn. Actually it amazes me more that I can watch a program on TV or have a conversation with my 13 month old daughter, a conversation that she obviously completely understands, and still not know really anything. What brought this on in me is that I was watching a science channel program “What the Ancients Knew.” If you haven’t seen this programming it is excellent, in some cases giving new information in others showing the interconnectedness of culture. As I was watching this programming I began to think how the ancient thinkers blended science, religion, myth, and everyday life into a complicated eco-system within their lives. Being who I am I was particularly struck by the part religion and the thirst for a place in the universe plays in all of this. Unfortunately today the church as a whole doesn’t seem to expect anything of this sort from their ministers (bear with me I know there are exceptions). I’m not harkening th...

The silence is deafening. When most people encounter silence they flee from it, quick turn on the TV. or the stereo. Don’t let the silence go to long, or else you might think about something you don’t want to. The silence is deafening. Quick now lets do something have a conversation, read a book, make love. We can do anything to keep from meeting our true selves in the night. The silence is deafening. For me this experience is regular. Even though I live in the city when I take my hearing aids off at night the silence takes over. I only have 30% of my hearing few deaf people that I have met have less hearing than I do. I don’t know if not being able to hear is an advantage for me in the different questions I love to explore, but I have found it slightly humorous. Most people fear the silence of not being able to hear, while I do fear that my hearing may get worse and I end up completely deaf I don’t fear the partial hearing loss that plunges me into a ...

It’s been a long time since I posted anything. Having suffered from a small bit of burn out in my second year of seminary, I have found it’s difficult to write or even read on this summer break. I may have a bit more time and incentive this week because I’m suffering from and outer, as well as inner ear infection. This plight has me waking up at five in the morning being unable to sleep because of the pain. Hopefully the benefit to this is I will post more and get back into the habit. This morning I was glancing over the titles posts at The Daily Scribe and I found a post by Clyde Grubbs that states that religious liberals are more concerned about deeds rather than creeds. Being in my semi-conscious daze this morning I didn’t read the rest of the post, but I began to think about this idea. I am honest I still struggle between the boundary of being a religious liberal or religious conservative. I am politically liberal because in large part I find the religious c...