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Continue reading →: Do not envy the violentThe book of Proverbs cautions against envying the violent. But we live in a society that glorifies violence, that sees it as entertaining even. It is hard not to follow in their ways. It is easy to sit in judgment on cultures like that of the Romans, saying that they…
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Continue reading →: Judging others and judging GodThere are two kinds of judgementalism. The first involves judging others as if I’m perfect when I am not. The second involves judging God’s standards as if they’re unimportant when they are. Both are based on arrogance.
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Continue reading →: Hell from a Buddhist PerspectiveAn image from the 12th century “Jigoku Zoshi (Hell Scroll)” located at the Nara National Museum in Japan. It depicts a Japanese Buddhist version of Hell. The primary difference between Buddhist versions of Hell and Christian versions of Hell has to do with their different conceptions of time. Buddhist regard…
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Continue reading →: Unicorn Symbolism In Christian ArtAngels and virgins and unicorns, oh my! Here’s a curious bit of Christian art history I have come across. From around 1330 AD a theme emerged in Medieval and Renaissance poetry art of the Virgin Mary as the hortus conclusus or “enclosed garden”. This was inspired by a verse from the…
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Continue reading →: The Christian Alchemy of Heinrich KhunrathI have been researching the Lutheran alchemists again, this time Heinrich Khunrath (1590 – 1605). He was a German physician, hermetic philosopher, and alchemist whose most famous work was Ampitheatrum Sapientae Aeternae (Ampitheatre of Eternal Wisdom). John Warwick Montgomery has pointed out that Johann Arndt (1555 – 1621), who was…
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Continue reading →: A prayer for ImbolcThe Hope of Spring – Author Unknown God, thank you for Spring and the hope of warmer, longer, brighter days. Thank you for the coming of growth and life and birth. Thank you that things are coming awake in the world. This is what our calendar says, and we do…
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Continue reading →: A sonnet for CandlemasCandlemas by Malcolm Guite They came, as called, according to the Law. Though they were poor and had to keep things simple, They moved in grace, in quietness, in awe, For God was coming with them to his temple. Amidst the outer court’s commercial bustle They’d waited hours, enduring shouts…
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Continue reading →: St Wick: Patron of firearms and puppiesSt Wick. Patron off firearms and puppies.
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