the sensation of life
Well, here's some more (continuing where I left off). Life, Death and Neighbours (cont.) ... the only way in which you know the seriousness of separation from God is in your own experience of yourself. ... 'If you have sin enough in your own life and your own home, you have no need to go … Continue reading Silence and Honey Cakes, part 3
Continuing from my last post on this book with more quotes from the first chapter. Really, you should just beg, borrow or even buy the book, and read it yourself, but I need to remember the essence of what he says — not that there is any spare flesh in Rowan's writing. Life, Death and … Continue reading Silence and Honey Cakes, part 2
Rowan Williams is simply incapable of writing a bad word. Someone, I forget who, introduced me to this book. I cannot tell you how thankful I am, how great a blessing it has been. I feel scoured (convicted, reproached) by the way he presents the wisdom of the desert mothers and fathers. Amazing Grace, indeed! … Continue reading Silence and Honey Cakes
This may be the next in an on-going, infinite series begun with Reasons not to pray: 1, 2, 3. Reason 4: the fear of emptiness, of nothing happening this time. Of course, nothing may happen, and there is nothing to be done about that. Indeed, if God is not an object in The Universe, if … Continue reading Reasons not to pray: 4
Religions are poor things: they are at their roots, flawed; propounded by flawed institutions, held together by irredeemably damaged people. But, we are all irredeemably damaged; and we are lost. Religions, bad as they are, are all we have to help us remember. Remember what? I do not know: I have forgotten, too. But it … Continue reading On the need for religion
I feel the need to have a rant (not a feeling I am unaccustomed to). This may be the first of many. <rant> Today on Start the Week on Radio 4, Grayson Perry and Jonathon Green were banging on about being ("fundamentalist" in Perry's words) atheists. Their images of God are so outmoded and childish: … Continue reading God is dead: thank God