Chasing Aslan in the Real World
What do we mean by “Evil”? There are some popular thoughts running through modern society, in “polite society” today that nobody is evil. I mean, other than mid-twentieth century Germans and their leaders…and maybe certain Republicans, right? But, nobody is or should be called “Evil”. At heart everyone is good and wants to be good... Continue Reading →
We all have this idea that if we just had more time, more years, more decades, then we would be a far wiser people than we are. Perhaps we even dream of the great perfect Utopia would could build with centuries of knowledge and understanding to draw on. One of the many things the book... Continue Reading →
<I was asked to give a meditation, for my son's Trail Life group, on "strength" as it relates to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength..." as well as the commandment to "love your neighbor as yourself" that we find in Mark 12 and Luke 10. It's my first... Continue Reading →
In the depths of his suffering, guilt, and despair at being cut off from the land, his family, and the Lord, Cain grieves. He declares that he is now condemned to be a vagabond and a wander, and whomever finds him will try to kill him because of what he has done. There is... Continue Reading →
A week and a half ago my Grandaddy died in the nursing home after a difficult night preceded by a few difficult couple of days. What that means exactly, no one has shared, but my grief has been a bit of a weird one. People come up to me and make a sad face, say... Continue Reading →
On this day two-thousand years ago our Lord and savior was abandoned by His disciples, and betrayed into the hands of the religious and political elite to be falsely accused, mocked, beaten, tortured, and then murdered. He stood utterly alone. It was a night of a long desired final meal, grieving prayer, and watching as... Continue Reading →
Sometimes we look at the Bible and see something that isn’t there. Our brains are information gathering and pattern recognizing machines par excellence. I say that at the outset here because I’ve noticed something in the narrative with Cain and God’s punishment of him and I’m not sure if it means anything at all. What... Continue Reading →
The murder done and the body presumably in the ground, Cain walks away. I’ve often childishly imagined Cain as sociopath. In my mind he clubbed Abel over the head, and buried him with out a regret, without grief. He was evil and sin incarnate in my little head as I watched a rage faced paper... Continue Reading →
We have no way of knowing how long it was between God’s warning to Adam and the actual eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by Eve and then Adam. Similarly, we have now way of knowing the length of time between God’s warning to Cain and the... Continue Reading →
As is usual in the narrative of Genesis, decades and sometimes centuries pass from one sentence to the next. Here in verse two we learn what becomes of Cain and Abel as they mature and grow into their occupations. Abel becomes a shepherd. Cain chooses to continue in the occupation given man in the garden... Continue Reading →
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