I’ve been pondering this poem the last few days, attempting to decipher it–in the sense that I’m not quite sure what Milosz really believes in the end. Thought you’d like a crack at it. “Religion Comes” Religion comes from our pity for humans They are too weak to live without divine protection. Too weak to […]
Is Religion About War or Peace?
I don’t like the word religion. It has different meanings–often damaging and misconstrued. Today I’m posing a question that nags at me quite a bit. If we were really living what Jesus taught, we’d be employing uncomfortable forms of living–ways of behaving that are so counterintuitive that as of now, we simply disregard them, don’t […]
Gospel of Glee
A few months back, I read a couple of the winning scripts of a well-known Christian screenplay contest. My aim was to figure out if I could write one. My decision was that I couldn’t. Now, before you jump to conclusions and assume I’m against all “Christian” movies, I’m not. But there’s a difference between […]
Muhammad’s Favorite Wife
What is truth, really? How do we separate what we’ve been told in childhood from truth? And how do we find the truth as adults? For some of us, finding it is imperative, because somewhere, buried deep in our bone marrow is the feeling that some things are true, some are false. The difficult question […]
Killer List of Hope
I’ll be the first to admit that Christians have a bad reputation, in general. At least that’s been my experience. And if you don’t believe me, here’s Shane Claiborne’s open-letter apology to non-believers in Esquire. And yet I’ll offer some hope below, in a (positive) killer list from Lauren Winner (about what she believes people […]