Seeking the Transcendent and American Cinema
“To be a person is to be transcendent. We therefore know about the transcendent, God, only because we participate in that mode of being.” - David Walsh,…
Dance of the Sky
As I look up at the stars That sing to me from afar, I dwell in that spirit divine Giving life to this soul of mine. My…
Electric Birds
Out in that vast dark we had to keep sight Of what brought us to that desert kingdom, Beneath which swam the darkest currency. Soldiers to the…
Satan Out of the Box: The Meaning of Labor, Today
“As long as you abide within my discourse, you are my students; and you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free” —John 8.32…
Luke as Historian
The world of biblical analysis seems to have two poles in the public imagination. One popular, generally atheistic, and horribly ignorant: the gospels were written—this analysis goes—long…
Deus ex Machina
1. Trash The traffic tears down this small hill - Two lanes turning right at the lights, And an occasional race or contest As they merge heading…
On the Purity of Music
Music is often claimed to be—and valued as—a “pure” art, one detached from the referents to the external world that we find in painting or literature. Music…
Poets’ Cento
I At the end of a clear blue day, entwined honeysuckle & jasmine stamens lust for tasting, the hour loneliness lay open to the sky. You came…
Consolation and Lamentation in the City of Man
Of late, much ruckus has been raised around the “feverish city” we currently endure. Within the intellectual civil war currently taking place in the conservative movement, it…
Mrs Nevines’ Bird Sanctuary, Co. Antrim
Mrs Nevines’ bird sanctuary looks at first Like a meshed community of cages Where birds get better – or worse, End up in the world of her…
Was the Apostle Paul Really the First Reformer?
Any student of New Testament studies will be familiar with the names F.C. Baur and J.B. Lightfoot. Baur was a nineteenth German-Hegelian theologian and biblical critic who…
The Good Old Days of the Good Old Boys
Throughout the America of the twenty-first century there is a strong sense that the media is biased and purely spreading propaganda in support of one of the…
Social Psychologists’ Attack on Intuition and Expertise
Iain McGilchrist comments in The Matter With Things that our moral intuitions often cannot survive extremely fanciful hypothetical situations nor imagining counterfactual imputations of omniscience. Our intuitions…
Immortal Beloved: Musical Love Letters From the Great Composers
Love has inspired countless composers, some of whom have written pieces dedicated to, or directly inspired by, their own beloveds. Here are ten of the best musical…
Nailing It
That’s the sound of unpractised hammering: Different from a nail hit hard, straight, head- To-head, with none of the light repetitive Clinks. And now, over the fence,…