Miscellaneous Writings – 2021
Here are a few short, expressive pieces I wrote last year that don’t fit anywhere in particular. Hope you enjoy! Prompt: “Compare and contrast the city/city life with nature/rural life” That great concrete jungle beckons the ambitious masses, but there is no true wilderness, no true adventure within its limits. It echoes with the neutered…
The Wind of the Winds
Myriad places of natural beauty in the world seem to have a “presence” or “spirit” about them. One notices this spirit by being present and paying attention to the environment. At the same time, its ways seem elusive, and even transient. “The wind—the spirit—blows where it wills, but you do not know where it comes…
A “Maximally Personal” Understanding of the Incarnation
What does it mean that God is “personal”? Roughly speaking, that he is “like us” in many ways. But for Jews and Christians, it is actually we who are like him: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27).…
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