I recently found a poem a wrote for a little student publication called The Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary for Summer 2000. It was in my days of intense study of the philosophy of technology and its fusion with concepts of desire in postmodernism (with a clear hat tip to Kierkegaard). Enjoy!
Musings of a Hyperseducer
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Posts under ‘Life’
hyper-sexuality
gravity
gravity
constant pull
not weight
a pressure
intense
pulling down
to some center
a vaccuum
light
delusion
image of the past
naive optimism
resisting
furiously
pulled deeper
with less of myself
in release
at the bottom
there is grace
where we are born
calling and spiritual death
In 1996 I began a process that I thought would resolve into my vocation for life: minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). I finished the two year preparation process by the book. My presbytery passed me and released me to pursue a call.
But I backed down.
I was in my mid-20's, newly [...]
pilgrimage
Everyone has a story.
It isn't science that offers the most compelling reasons for belief or unbelief, but our experiences with others and with the worlds we inhabit. In November of 2009 I told my own pilgrimage to Thomas Mathie over at the Something Beautiful Podcast. I told him before hand that I would leave nothing [...]
books i have read in 2009
These are the one's I decided to be done with even if I did not exactly read every single word! In order from recent to least recent:
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West – Mark Lilla
God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America – Naomi Schaefer Riley
Deer [...]
