Nothing speaks of death quite as eloquently as Thanksgiving. Not surprisingly, that’s not how we Americans approach the matter come the end of November. We associate Thanksgiving with turkey and stuffing and cranberries and pie. We associate it with family gatherings, and maybe even family fights. More recently, Thanksgiving has become the locus of our …
I find myself in a position similar to Jude, While eagerly preparing to write to you about one thing, I found it necessary to write and appeal to you about another. I've been working on Ephesians for the last few months, and as inevitably will happen when studying Ephesians, I keep bumping up against the …
In a conversation with Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt observed that moralism messes everything up. (Just an aside, but I am amused when an academic says something as erudite as "messes everything up.") Peterson asked him what he meant by moralism. Haidt's response was that the most helpful framework for understanding the world is a true/false …
This essay will largely consist of a transcription of part of a conversation when Jonathan Pageau was a guest on the “Your Mate Tom” podcast. Pageau is an icon carver and student of symbolism, and his podcast and YouTube channel focus primarily on his insights into symbolism in everyday life. Unfortunately, his work is somewhat …
Spending over a year mostly ignoring social media and the news to study the General Epistles during the period of Covid lock down, finger-pointing and fearmongering is without doubt one of the most worthwhile things I have done. Serializing the results and posting them as essays on this blog, on the other hand, ranks among …
Just Another Jim 