-
-
Contact me:
-
ehurst@radixfidem.blog
Categories
Category Archives: eldercraft
Unintended Confirmations
One of our fundamental teachings here is that God’s character pervades the whole universe. Regardless of apparent facts, you won’t really begin to understand reality until you characterize it on some level as a living thing itself. On some level, … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged church, divine revelation, government, human nature, human understanding, moral fabric, organizational theory, religion
3 Comments
Blindfolding
It’s disturbing. Fundamental to the concept of civility is that we recognize the difference between private and secret. That is, we keep from others only what is private — stuff that, best you can tell, does not affect them and … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged divine justice, google, oppression, propaganda, psychology, Quantum Morality, technology, Yahoo
Comments Off on Blindfolding
The Demon God of Sexual Fantasy
Westerners suffer a serious sexual psychopathology. Western mythology has destroyed countless lives. It’s not so much a single thread as a collection of false dichotomies, the standard binary logic that makes Western Civilization damnably dangerous to Christian morality. If you … Continue reading
Flashback: The Rehabilitation of Peter
A major focus here at Kiln of the Soul virtual parish is healing, of restoring divine justice to the lives of individuals. Naturally that puts our emphasis on pastoral counseling. I write with the aim to declare as clearly as … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged divine justice, Jesus, moral justice, pastoral counseling, pastoral ministry, psychology, scripture, Simon Peter
Comments Off on Flashback: The Rehabilitation of Peter
Switch Channels
Nobody can explain it, though thousands have tried. We can’t even describe it. There is ample evidence in Scripture that it goes far back into human history. It’s more than mere records of conversations with God. Just who is going … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged conversations with God, human suffering, Job, mysticism, peace, psychology, sensory heart, western christianity
4 Comments
Transience
A measure of uncertainty is our certitude. Recall that fundamental to the Fall was human presumption on divine prerogative. Creation remains in a variable state; it is in one sense nothing more than the contextual extension of God’s imagination. It … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged ANE, epistemology, mysticism, nature, peace, social sciences, spirituality
3 Comments
Locus Focus Hocus Pocus
(Posted early as tomorrow’s message.) I’ve tried to warn my readers that we should study the Ancient Hebrew mindset as best we can, but never pretend it is necessary or even possible to duplicate it in ourselves. We do not … Continue reading
World of the Damned
Christ considered death on the Cross as His greatest victory. Stop reading things like that as religious language with its own sacred meaning. Read that as you would any normal English communication. What our world still thinks of as a … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged divine revelation, ministry, mission, mysticism, nature, peace, religious language, spirituality, western civilization
Comments Off on World of the Damned
Stability in Motion
I was altogether serious about it. In my mind was a wealth of possibilities for building a new and different kind of faith community. I still hope to see that, but I won’t be involved in that mission in the … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged civilization, epistemology, faith community, faith in God, individual faith, mission, mysticism, religion, spirituality
Comments Off on Stability in Motion
Babylon Again
The lesson was burned into my soul long before I was conscious of it: no two alike. Commonalities there must be, or communication and fellowship are utterly impossible. Those things are required, so they must be possible on some level, … Continue reading