I recently finished The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux. This is another in the
Discernment of one’s calling
“As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work.” (Colossians 1:10 MSG) I recently finished my first semester at
Neurophysiology, the multiverse, and spirituality
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD
Speaking prophetically to one’s community; daily office commentary on Matthew 10:17-28.
“For most of my life I thought that speaking “prophetically” meant seeing the future or speaking in the role of a divinely authorized leader of a religious institution. In Jesus’s context, though, prophets most often emerged not from the leadership of the institutional political or religious class, but rather from the people, and sometimes even from outside the religious community. They were tasked with calling the institution, its leaders, and its community to repentance.”
On the theological paradox of ecclesiastical authority in the Episcopal Church
“In the Episcopal Church, priests take vows to follow the counsel of their bishops and to live and teach the doctrines of the Church BUT are also called to help people live into the life and teachings of Jesus who was anything but deferential to institutional religious authority.”
Opening weekend at Bexley Seabury
This weekend I began an M.Div. program at Bexley Seabury Seminary in Chicago. My path to this program has been somewhat unconventional. I’m in my
Hazelnut Notes 