Category Archives: Miscellaneous

KEEP YOUR CATEGORIES CLEAR!

One of my wife’s students was a bit troubled by the idea that Jesus was “separated from the Father.”  He said that was an impossibility because the trinity could not cease to exist.  He is correct of course, but misses an issue many others do as well.  I am speaking of categories.
For example, we don’t ask what colors taste like because the property of colors is visual in nature.
With Jesus there is a sense in which He was relationally disconnected to the Father at the cross all the while being connected in His essence or being
My wife’s student did not need to be troubled.  The trinity never stopped existing, but there was a real sense in which Jesus was separated from the Father. 
How to conceptualize all this is a deep mystery, but at least we can say there isn’t a contradiction.

SATAN IS THE AUTHOR OF MOVING

No, Satan is not in this picture, but then again, I am not so sure.  

The past week found us moving lots of “little things” to get ready for the movers to move the big stuff.  Little stuff includes over 100 boxes of books up to the second floor library.  I can’t complain too much because it is a great space to read, write, and reflect.  

I want to publicly thank the persons responsible for creating milk shakes and homemade lemonade. And I am glad to live in Austin with its great tasting water!

YOUR PASSION FOR PASSION IS KILLING ME!

Passion is a word we might do well to put to bed…or at least for a long nap.  It is the code word which alerts us to the fact that someone is truly excited about something.  

I was delighted to see that one college banned it as a word.  Check out their entire list of banned words.  Makes me want to donate to the school even though I have no ties there!

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php