Category: christianity


  • The Reflection and the Face, Part II: The Face

    In Part I you are a reflection, a conscious mind held inside a larger Mind, the way a man named Frank would be held inside your imagination, you holding him in being. Frank reasons that the source behind the worldโ€™s pattern must be a face: personal, relational, a giving and a receiving older than creation…

  • The Reflection and the Face, Part I: The Reflection

    The Dream You Cannot Wake From โ™ช (read with: Arvo Pรคrt โ€” Spiegel im Spiegel) You have had the dream where you know you are dreaming. Something tips you off: an elevator without walls, a face that shifts when you look too long, gravity doing something it shouldnโ€™t. And for a moment, inside the dream,…

  • The Fractal Nature of Reality

    Look closely at a tree. Each branch carries the shape of the whole, and each twig carries it again. Zoom into a coastline and the same jagged pattern appears at every scale. Watch lightning fork across the sky and it looks like a tree. Look at a bare tree against the sky and it looks…

  • The Voice in the Wilderness โ€” Modern John the Baptist Figures

    There is a youthful energy most of us recognize. Maybe you remember it in yourself, maybe you see it in younger people than you. A kind of rawness. The person showing early signs of the qualities, the spirit, of what is in store. Not the finished thing, but the silhouette against a distant horizon of…

  • How Vinland Saga Nearly Turns a Dead Body Into the Highest Allegory for Love

    Media can be such a wonderful vehicle for change, especially when it’s used in a way that makes viewers think about the very things that define their lives. That is certainly the case in the above clip from Vinland Saga, where the young Prince Canute wakes up after a dream on a battlefield, remembering his…