Month: February 2008

• Fathers Give Good Gifts

  In the garden, in the cool of the day, God had the habit of visiting Adam and Eve. God didn’t live there, it was the couple’s home. God dropped in, every day. (In another real sense, God is everywhere – but the details of the biblical narrative are important and tell us real things about…

• Sex and Violence

  I think it’s pretty clear that God made us to 1) enjoy our own spouses’ nakedness (but no-one else’s), and 2) be non-violent. The closer we can come to these primal conditions, the better. They are not unconnected, as it first appears, since both fidelity and peace are simply aspects of love. When Jesus changes…

• Technology births and kills culture

  Technical progress yields leisure, which is liberation from the deperate pursuit of food and shelter.   Leisure makes culture possible.  Culture flourishes,  which means the heart of man elaborates itself like a seed unfolding into a tree with good and evil branches.    As culture develops, then, it’s parts are increasingly hostile to each other and in…

• Roman 8.3-7

  The experience of victory in the NT hinges on something like “attention to the matters of the Spirit”.