Last night we had friends over, drinking wine and talking, while in the background Gordon Lightfoot played on my stereo. I love all kinds of music and wouldn’t normally listen to Gordon on a daily basis. But whenever I listen to him it throws me back to my youth when he was on the radio. It reminds me of going on fishing trips with my friends to the remote lakes in northern Ontario, drinking beer in an old cabin, listening... Read more
Please have patience with me as I try to have with myself. I’m thinking out loud here, trying to develop into words something I’ve seen. I’m trying to articulate something very delicate but I think important. I must admit to you that I am not a philosopher or theologian, but a boy in a man’s body, an artist with spiritual leanings, a sinner on a religious path, a simple shepherd with a tiny flock, a dullard with a blog. I’ve... Read more
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Is there an implicit trinitarian structure to reality? This is what the z-theory (here and here) is concerned with. Is there The Unknown, The Revelation/Reception, and The Appropriation? (I realize these are just words. I am just using them in an effort to point to something. They are interchangeable with other words. But I have chosen these ones for now because they are global in meaning.) Even though this might be an implicit structure or order to Reality, I do... Read more
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This is a cartoon I posted here last year. It’s one of my favorites. I liken visionary thinking as pretty useless and sometimes even violent. I consider vision-casting as mostly a group exercise in futility. It is like putting the carrot in front of the horse to get it to go in your desired direction. I’ve been the one holding the stick. I relinquish that now. I’ve also been the one trying to attain that elusive carrot. It’s plastic. And... Read more
I’m in a deep hole today. I can’t see any way out right now. So I’m not even bothering to try. I’m just here. I didn’t even bother to do a cartoon today. I just couldn’t find what it took. I am clothed in sackcloth and dust myself with ashes. And no one understands. Not even I. There are times like this for me where I feel completely hopeless. There are times when I just submerge like never before. I... Read more
The z-theory (check out the background here and here) is important to me for these reasons: it provides a comprehensive framework that helps me make some sense of reality; it furnishes room for a reasonable faith within that reality that can be conscientiously held; and it has potential for an integrative view of existence that includes all people. I do not wish for one moment to claim that this is right, that it is the only way to think, that... Read more
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// twitter me Check out my t-shirts HERE. I’m growing my inventory all the time. And check out my contemplative art here. Read more
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