Many of you may already know that I am beginning a ministry sabbatical next week. That means I will take a break from my online presence, including my social media accounts and blog. So, don't be surprised if things go quiet from me over the next couple of months. I am doing well and looking …
Wisdom and Knowledge
We have information without knowledge, and the knowledge we have does not lead us to wisdom. Wisdom is fashioned through reflection upon the crucible of living with knowledge, inadequate knowledge, or lack of knowledge. Yet, the crucible of life is often that against which we medicate ourselves or from which we insulate ourselves. We arch our …
The Distance Between Two
What a long way it is between knowing God and loving him! - Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 377. It is easier to talk about God than to talk to God. It is easier to sense awe or delight in the created things - a sunrise, the face of a lover, the rugged mountain ranges - than it …
The Teacher Sits
Only someone who is silent is listening....Thus, the world reveals itself to the silent listener and only to him; the more silently he listens, the more purely is he able to perceive reality. - Josef Pieper The Teacher sits like a child on the floor in a room of adults standing above him. He speaks …
Learning to Stop
Ten years ago the standard response to the question, “how are you?” was “fine.” That was not a particularly informative answer but it was, well…fine. In today’s American culture, however, the standard response to the question, “how are you” seems to be “busy.”[1] One social commentator points out that it is not only adults …
Matthew Erickson 