Straight into it, in the middle of this very busy week and it's an early Blogfocus today [hideous day tomorrow for yours truly]:1 Winfred Mann is new on our block and her post is so different to the ordinary blogpost it is arresting. Here she relates when she first saw G-d and I for one take this quite seriously:
It was about 5:30 AM, and it felt very cold. The early morning sky was tremendously dark hanging like an enormous blanket over the city; no stars were visible on this still windless early morning. I carefully made my way down the driveway onto the sidewalk noting the shadowy tree figures created by the single lamppost at the corner of the block. I began staring upward into the darkness thinking about how unusual everything appeared, almost black on black. The light from the lamppost, without which I’m sure I would have seen nothing, almost resembled a wayward moon disrupting the magnificent stillness of the moment. I intentionally avoided looking directly at the glaring sphere and focused on the stark black sky. It was beautiful.
2 Celia Green is another interesting character, a retired academic and she's writing about a subject I had a bit of a problem with in 1994:
When I say that I could never draw social security however hard up I was, because I had been left without any usable qualifications, I mean not merely hard up relative to the cost of remaining physically alive, but hard up relative to the cost of providing myself with the equivalent of a residential college (hotel) environment and the secretarial and other facilities that might have been provided by the sort of academic career which I should have been having, as well as a Professorial salary.
3 Paul Burgin, at Mars Hill, is extraordinary. Not only does he like Gordon, he says so in no uncertain terms. When he apologizes, he also does so in no unceratin terms:
Seems like I was totally wrong when I wrote this post, since this happened. I could say more, but it's kinda late and Iain Dale has (unusually) written something political where I agree with not just one part of the entry, but just about every single word he says!
Nine more bloggers here.
Can one be spiritual without being religious?
ReplyDeleteCan all religions be correct?
WM
Matt and Alex are brilliant: they are true humanists, theist and atheist. no insults, no abuse, just good quality writing and thinking. Highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteWinfred - I think there is a truth and all sorts of things from astrology to Buddhism are commentaries or manifetations of the same thing. As a Christian, I believe it is essentially so - it certainly rings true but there are anomalies which can't be resolved.
ReplyDeleteTin Drummer - yes, those two really have a thing going over there.