Not according to Gilbert Meilaender, exposing a dangerously foolish concept which is often promulgated in distorted forms of spirituality:
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Some people collect stones, others take photographs, and a select few simply choose to remember in effect letting time decide whether or not a memory shall fade. The most important moments in my life are preserved not only by some of the means above, but also in poems. I am a poet, and I capture
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Titanic
On Christmas evening, I was on a comfy couch, surfing through TV channels. I was trying to find a good movie to watch to lighten up my moody Christmas, and I ironically landed on a station that was showing Titanic, which I personally believe is 1000000 times better than Avatar. When the movie came out in 1997, I
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The Church Search II – Practicals
Last week, I wrote about some of the principles behind “congregation exploration,” so this week, I figured I’d give some tips on what to put in your backpack, how to read your map, and whether you should go with a monkey or a jaguar as your primary companion. There are three basic, practical things you
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The Lyric Line
You see, and you turn – that is the thing, which for a moment casts open the beauty of all the world – all concentrated, all of a sudden, in a single melodic line – and you want to turn to the person besides you and say, Look! Look! I have never been happy before
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The Government of the Beast
What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:4 What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean
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Plan A: Marriage, Not Polygamy
Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.” … Now it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her back to Jacob, and he went in to her. And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to
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