Please count me out

Will killing our fellow human beings really make it better?

The sweetest ache is knowing you hold something beautiful, even as it slips through your fingers...

The worse the world gets, the more and more thankful I am that she is in it

The only war that we should be pursuing is the war with our own inner shadows.

"Don't plant me inside your heart. I'd outgrow you."

-Rilke

The hope of Resurrection

I think my soul is tired

Most Americans who reject Christianity do so not because Jesus is intolerable, but because Jesus has become intolerable to American Christians.

We have replaced Jesus Christ with a golden calf of cruel ideology that is the opposite of his teachings.

Shame on us.

We should be rejected.

We should repent.

City backyard farming! New additions to the henhouse once they are older.

Because Jesus has passed through death and returned as life itself our story cannot end in death and darkness.

Frailty will break us. Despair will overwhelm us. Death will swallow us.

…but this is cannot the end of any soul’s story because resurrection has come into the world.

Last night I had a dream that I was in a cavern in which time passes differently in each place, and I was digging to find a place where time would not pass so quickly.

I imagine this is the kind of dream one can only have in the second half of a lifetime.

You find much greater pleasure in life once you realize that a pleasurable life isn’t the goal of living…

The best response to the loud, cruel stupidity of our world will always be the quiet, calm resolve to love our neighbor as ourselves despite everything

Compatible belief system aren’t a prerequisite for cooperation and compatible lives. We can love each other without believing the same doctrines. Otherwise it just ends up a war of all against all.

TLDR: If Elon Musk’s grandparents kept the laborers on apartheid reservations and treated them as second class citizens when they had all the economic and political power…

what’s to stop Elon Musk’s grandchildren from doing far worse to our grandchildren when AI gives them all the political and economic power AND all the labor?

Future generations may be dependent on the altruism and egalitarianism of the billionaire class, which currently sounds like a grim prospect

It’s so sad that American Evangelicalism often teaches a cruel dogmatism about God that makes atheism feel like the better alternative

There is a kind of peace that is only found after leaving the turmoil

Nations rise and fall, but it’s our responsibility to rise regardless

I love how Maximus the Confessor describes the final end of the human soul as “ the ever-moving rest.”