Last time I touched on using the imagination as you meditate on Scripture, using the story of 12-year-old Jesus talking with the religious leaders in Luke 2 as an example. I said that part of the problem when reading this and other passages is that you know the story so well that you skim over […]
Using Your Imagination—Part 1
Welcome to my blog! Or to those of you who have read me in the past, welcome back! If you note the date of my last post you will see it was four months ago, almost to the day. Back in October, due to an automatic WordPress update, my website theme stopped working. So I […]
I Am Christian
I wonder sometimes about Paul’s declaration in Philippians 3:10 that he wanted to have fellowship with Christ’s sufferings (“that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death”) and what that means. Since we American Christians did not grow up in a climate […]
Christumenical
Recently I had a conversation with a friend over an article she found online that described some beliefs C.S. Lewis held that are contrary to standard evangelical beliefs. (The article mentioned that as an Anglican, Lewis believed in purgatory and praying for the dead, among other things. However I should point out that Anglican doctrine […]
Lovin’ into the Kingdom
A few days ago I posted on Facebook an accusatory single sentence directed at a celebrity whose name I shall refrain from repeating here. I wrote the post at night, in a fit of outrage after hearing a news report of the celebrity’s supposed misdeeds, then went to bed. Early the next morning I had […]
Memory and Forgiveness
A number of years ago a young man was murdered. If this were the slug of a news story, or perhaps the first line of a novel, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Why was he murdered? Was the murderer caught? Was he convicted, sent to prison? What became of the victim’s family? Let […]
Resonating with God
I recently purchased for the first time a set of Augustine classical guitar strings. Upon installing them on my guitar, I immediately noticed that when playing an A on the third string, the 5th open A string would also resonate. This phenomenon also occurred with other notes. At first I thought I’d gotten a bad […]
Rules of the Game
Steve Coburn’s tirade on Saturday about the unfairness of allowing horses that hadn’t run in either the Derby or the Preakness to run in the Belmont (his excuse for why his horse, California Chrome, didn’t win the Triple Crown) got me to thinking about human suffering, and the God who allows it. Weird, huh? But […]
Death of a Writer
by DENISE MARIE SIINO on MAY 13, 2014 One of my favorite authors died last month. Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian-born journalist and author. My introduction to him came in my World Lit I class at Chapman University when we read “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” followed the next year (World Lit II) by […]
Christ has risen…He has risen indeed!!!
Christ has risen…He has risen indeed! This declaration and response resounds throughout Christendom on Easter Sunday…a day I look forward to each year. While the Christmas season holds special meaning for Christians worldwide, Jesus did not ask us to remember His birth. But He did ask us to remember His death, burial and resurrection, which […]