Saturday, March 31, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 64


The parable of the Good Samaritan continued...the aversion to the corpse. The power of the sacrificial system is based on death.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 63



The parable of the Good Samaritan continued...'beaten and stripped' of cultural markers...a priest and Levite pass by.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 62



The parable of the Good Samaritan continued..."trying to justify himself" - a symptom of the lack of ontological moorings/ontological density

Saturday, March 24, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 61

A lawyer asks, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" - The parable of the Good Samaritan...

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 60



 A short detour back to St. John's Gospel chapter 9 and the story of the man born blind...Christian agnosticism: "I do not know. All I know is once I was blind and now I can see."

Sunday, March 18, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 59



Thank you Father because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent ones and revealed them to infants…

Thursday, March 15, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 58



Do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven...

Monday, March 12, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 57



The disciples rejoice that even the demons "submit to us in your name"...where is the emphasis, on 'us' or 'in your name'?
 Jesus sees Satan fall like lightening...

Friday, March 09, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 56



"At the judgment it will be more tolerable with Tyre and Sidon than with you..."
If a culture, after having been exposed to the Gospel, turns its back on it, it then runs a great risk. The old sacrificial system for averting culture destroying violence has been compromised by the Gospel leaving it exposed to falling into the chaos of 'hades'.

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 55



The sending of the 70...an advance team going in pairs...like lambs among wolves. Will they go 'native'? The instablility of the autonomous self.

Saturday, March 03, 2012

from the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 54



The "impossible possibility" of the Church - to create an enculturating force whose effects are to free us from the forces of enculturation...showing the world a universal being where only ethnic/tribal members existed.