With the current chapter title, I’m trying to evoke sandwich board guys on street corners. But I do love your point that the End is actually the glorious new beginning. Reminds me of the new creation language in John’s resurrection story: “on the first day of the week” Jesus rose 🫶
I followed this with some interest. Being under the skin with a pastor is refreshing in an awkward way. It is not common for this side of folks to be seen, but I see you. I remember the year at SPS when I couldn't even remember who you were as one of my students. That car accident knocked way too much out of me for happiness. But I have been refreshed over and over by your writings on substack. I remember you now though I had forgotten and you are a treasure to the Church. Thanks so much for your productions. And even though it seems like I am waiting at my inbox to get your stuff and make a comment, it is not true. But, my workstation is my second home and I come here for a wide variety of things, my business Keystrokes, my entertainment, my development work, my family and other communications, blah blah blah. Thanks for making my online world a more interesting place. I will be at SPS this year, and give my paper, "Is Abortion Always Murder?"
You are way too kind to me. Thank you for saying all of this 🙏🙏🙏 and, as I’ve told you before, your into to philosophy class was a marked awakening to me at Evangel, so take some credit (in the Lord) for the person I’ve become 😇
I believe it was the Inuits and “infanticide”—the leaving behind of a child in the cold winter for whom there was no food. That, and the cartoon you showed us. I was floored that animation could be philosophical!
The bits of Waking Life I showed you were intensely interesting though inconclusive in a good way. The infanticide stories, like the Greeks who did the same to malformed children, are a contextual clue to the difficulty of ethical decision making given cultural norms. Yeah, that is startling to see that our cultural assumptions are not universal or necessarily true for others. That can be a shock.
That reminds me of the underbelly of purity cultures of whatever kind, whether Christian in the millennials, or the SDS in the '60s who couldn't tolerate women standing up to "leadership" to have their voices heard.
<<We also had Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, and not a few Gentiles (!)>>
How cool would it be to have a pastor-theologian from Iran (ancient Elam) be able to participate in the CPT? Lord willing...
I pray for that
Any rough idea when your new book will be released?
I'm hoping in the next 6 months? But it's hard to know. Publishers work as fast as they can haha
Without knowing the contents, consider changing ch.2's title to "the beginning is near"
Also alternate title for this post - YNWA
Haaahah yessss YNWA 🫡
With the current chapter title, I’m trying to evoke sandwich board guys on street corners. But I do love your point that the End is actually the glorious new beginning. Reminds me of the new creation language in John’s resurrection story: “on the first day of the week” Jesus rose 🫶
Say no more hahaha
😂😂😂
I followed this with some interest. Being under the skin with a pastor is refreshing in an awkward way. It is not common for this side of folks to be seen, but I see you. I remember the year at SPS when I couldn't even remember who you were as one of my students. That car accident knocked way too much out of me for happiness. But I have been refreshed over and over by your writings on substack. I remember you now though I had forgotten and you are a treasure to the Church. Thanks so much for your productions. And even though it seems like I am waiting at my inbox to get your stuff and make a comment, it is not true. But, my workstation is my second home and I come here for a wide variety of things, my business Keystrokes, my entertainment, my development work, my family and other communications, blah blah blah. Thanks for making my online world a more interesting place. I will be at SPS this year, and give my paper, "Is Abortion Always Murder?"
Credit, no, but satisfaction, yes.
Was there a moment or an essay or something else we did in class that got your wheels spinning?
You are way too kind to me. Thank you for saying all of this 🙏🙏🙏 and, as I’ve told you before, your into to philosophy class was a marked awakening to me at Evangel, so take some credit (in the Lord) for the person I’ve become 😇
I hit the wrong button.
Credit, no, but satisfaction, yes.
Was there a moment or an essay or something else we did in class that got your wheels spinning?
I believe it was the Inuits and “infanticide”—the leaving behind of a child in the cold winter for whom there was no food. That, and the cartoon you showed us. I was floored that animation could be philosophical!
The bits of Waking Life I showed you were intensely interesting though inconclusive in a good way. The infanticide stories, like the Greeks who did the same to malformed children, are a contextual clue to the difficulty of ethical decision making given cultural norms. Yeah, that is startling to see that our cultural assumptions are not universal or necessarily true for others. That can be a shock.
I was so pleased to be in a classroom that didn’t treat the world like a neat and tidy place
That reminds me of the underbelly of purity cultures of whatever kind, whether Christian in the millennials, or the SDS in the '60s who couldn't tolerate women standing up to "leadership" to have their voices heard.