Theology That Bites Back
If you came here first thing this fine Monday morning for the kind of prose that scintillates like a ballet dancer using her very finest pointe technique, the chances are good that you typed in the wrong url address, or were the victim of some kind of auto-correct mishap. But if you came here for …
“That great prince implored me, pleaded with anguish,
To seek the sea’s bottom and summon up vengeance,
To brave the beast’s power, take battle down to her.”
“Then their keel carved water, they caught the wind,
And drove the deep water with Denmark behind them.
They hoisted high the wind-coat and held it with ropes,
Tight to the tall mast; their timbers creaked . . .
Foam-throated she flew, fleet like an arrow”
Introduction: One begins to suspect that the folks down at Woka-Wola have been snorting coke again, doesn't one? Of course, if they have been, then there is really nothing unusual, right? ...
“The ship on the strand was seaworthy and wide,
Laden with riches, ring-prowed, riding at anchor”
Note: the topics addressed in the letters are really all over the place, and so I have done minimal work in trying to group them. I pretty much just have a title for every letter. If this is a problem ...
“These warriors came wending their way to the coast,
Brave-hearted and bold, bearing their armor . . .”
Introduction to Truth: Pilate dared to ask his famous question—what is truth?—when the incarnate Truth had been arrested and was standing right there in front of him (John 18:38). Jesus had just ...
“That great guest slept under gables of gold,
And his sleep was sound, safety reigned in the hall”
