Anyone else feel like there’s a tendency to whitewash Christmas and the Advent season? The typical sentiments – merry and bright, the happiest time of the year, etc – often come across as marshmallow fluff, sickly saccharine and lacking any kind of nourishment or depth. Even the churchy nativity scenes are sanitized; of course there’s…
Month: December 2022
Light Dawns
The idea of “signs” generally makes me uncomfortable. Not street signs, or any other kind of wayfinding, those of course are quite welcome! The concept of some kind of occurrence being interpreted as a sign for what action I am to take or how I am to proceed seems a little suspect at best. Do…
Law or Love
Would you rather have a god who always listens, or one who always speaks? Such is a question asked by Daniel Nayeri in his book Everything Sad is Untrue, and it’s one which has lingered far beyond the final page. He goes on to make the point that neither is really what we want. A…
Recent Reads, Volume XXVI
A brief summary of what I’m currently reading or have recently finished, why I read it, and whether I’d recommend it. Although really, it’d have to be truly terrible for me to bother writing about a book I wouldn’t recommend…… Till We Have Faces (C. S. Lewis) – There are some books I read because…