As I keep thinking about evil, and our flawed-ness, I end up reflecting on something that I tend to say alot: “We are a broken race.” Or: “Being human is hard; we are a broken people.”
Personally, I do not believe this life is all there is– I believe we can sometimes sense, see, or feel [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Crooked timber
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith, pain, relationship, Religion on February 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Theodicy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged pain, Religion, School on February 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Theodicy = the problem of evil.
That is, it’s a problem that has existed for theologians, faithful, and philosophers for nearly ever. Like, why is there evil in the world if God is good, OR, why can’t/won’t God stop evil if God is all-powerful.
Various theologians try to solve it in different ways– one example: God [...]
Try, hope, receive
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, goodness, hope, School on February 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I haven’t been getting the Internet on my darling little laptop, so although nearly every day for the last week, I’ve thought, “I should blog,” I have not. But I never liked the kinds of letters from friends that began with a paragraph of “I feel awful for not having written…” so I’ll dispense with [...]
Move into the painting: Guernica
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Really, really brilliant. An artist named Lena Gieseke came up with the idea of doing– how to describe it? — some sort of 3D exploration of a painting. A description of the concept on the site explains how the idea came from doing puzzles of famous paintings, and looking so closely at details of the [...]
