Ruminations

I’m finding it ever so interesting to see people’s response to supernatural activity. Most simply ignore it; some get mad at it; others want to redefine it into some aberration of the natural. By far the majority don’t believe it.
Yet, everyone says they would love to see it.
Funny…

When fishing you don’t use a log for pole, chain for line and lobster for bait while screaming “bite or go to hell” The wise win souls  –Tommy Tenney Tweet, January 30,2010

I’ve become an observer.
I don’t know when this occurred; it probably didn’t just “occur,” but rather “developed.” Perhaps it has something to do with age, experience or both. Perhaps it has to do with a mental transformational process that evolved. “Evolved” in the sense that I intentionally pursued it.
Maybe the evolution of the mental transformation [...]

So, as I entered into the world of pastorship (is that a word?), I had completed my indoctrination in one of the most pharisaical seminaries in the U.S.
I could quote every proof text necessary to bolster my position (in Greek, Hebrew and English), I could definitively tell you why your position was wrong, I could [...]

Many years ago, I dealt with intellectual honesty in a dishonest manner and it changed my life.
In a class called “Denominational Dogmas,” my professor assigned me a term paper topic that was, in all candor, a fascinating spiritual topic. As he handed me back my finished product and I saw a big, red “D-” emblazoned [...]

I read this earlier today:
Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. (This was before John was put in prison.)
The parenthetical really stood out. What was happening at that moment wasn’t the reality when the text was being penned. It [...]

It saddens me to see believers living beneath themselves.
I’ve read news reports about people living in abject poverty who, after they’ve died, it was discovered that they were millionaires. They weren’t millionaires who decided to live on the street, they were street people who had hoarded every penny they were given and found, saving it [...]

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.  — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The spirit of religion will force itself upon people via the keepers of traditional “spirituality.” Said to be [...]