I am a Christian who struggles with depression, anxiety, and chronic pain, and Jesus Christ has something to do with it. To reconcile the resurrection of Jesus Christ with the persistent rebellion of my body and mind is an absurd thing. It has become abundantly clear that I cannot understand the whys and hows of my suffering. I’m thrust into a Kierkegaardian framework wherein true faith stands opposed to human rationality, and the gospel to...
Theology and language are inseparable. Theology is speech about God, and this speech is linguistic and therefore culturally defined. Languages, particularly those of civilizations with imperial and colonial histories, are the words of the most affluent and well-to-do. (This is why words like ‘suwanne’ and ‘purdy’ are not found in the OED). Words of conquered civilizations were often lost and replaced with cognates from the conquering language. Therefore, when humanity speaks about God, even in the...
I’ve always wondered what it means to be known. Last time I talked about how our desire to be known has to be rooted in God’s knowledge of us. I looked at the song “Goner” by twenty one pilots (the final track off of their album, Blurryface). I think Tyler Joseph says some interesting things that help me think through where a desire to be known must begin. In this post I want to extend...
This summer, America celebrated her 240th birthday. The Fourth of July has always been one of my favorite holidays, mostly because I love any excuse to eat my weight in watermelon and watch things explode, but this summer I spent most of the month of July in England. All “America-as-the-original-Brexit” jokes aside, I found it rather significant that on this particular 4th of July, I found myself in an 800 year old church in Cambridge...
Last year I got to experience Hume Lake for the first time as a counselor. I was blown away at their focus on Jesus and emphasis on connecting students back to the local Church. You can read about my experience here. This post is dedicated to sharing what Jesus did in the lives of my students this past week as I was able to go for a second time with the same church as last...
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