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The internet has a strange effect on us. Many people, myself included, have the ability to gain an ‘audience’ for something creative that they do—this writing, in my case—in a way can warp your sense of yourself and what it is that you’re actually doing. If you pull some reasonable numbers in terms of how… Continue reading On thinking you’re someone
What is wisdom? Does it have something to do with whether or not you put tomatoes in a fruit salad? Wisdom is a key Biblical concept, undervalued in the modern day. I rarely hear preaching about wisdom, for all it’s at the root of the problem of Eden and therefore we might assume also involved… Continue reading Understanding Wisdom
There is no one who is higher than the Lord Jesus. He is Yahweh, God of gods, King of kings, Lord of lords. He is seated on the throne in the heavenly temple and the train of his robe fills the place. There are winged fiery lightning snakes that attend his person and serenade him,… Continue reading High and Lifted Up
We live in a world that tells a story about itself: we learn the story as children in school and we imbibe it in our cups as we go about the day. It’s whispered to us by automobiles and tarmac and concrete pillars and we receive it intravenously by the tap our smartphones have placed… Continue reading Individualism in the Machine
There’s an old story that used to be often told as a literary cautionary tale, that you don’t hear so much of these days: Faust. In the story Dr Faustus becomes impatient with his limitations and the limitations his various fields of study placed on him. He found no matter how much he learned he… Continue reading Embracing Limits
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