Tag Archives: Creation

Warfare and Tribal Nature

Posted on July 29, 2016 by ehurst

Jack Perry gets it. Even here in our virtual parish I’ve had visitors who should know better simply never grasp the hard-wired tribal nature of humanity. Just because Western minds can imagine something they like better doesn’t mean it will … Continue reading →

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My Father’s World, Part 5

Posted on July 22, 2016 by ehurst

Aside from Acts and Paul’s letters, we know very little about early spiritual gifts. In Corinth it’s all about glossolalia. Outside of Corinth, we hear most about prophecy and healing miracles. The historical records of church history since that time … Continue reading →

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My Father’s World, Part 3

Posted on July 20, 2016 by ehurst

Cain lost his communion with Creation. The symbolism was that the ground would no longer cooperate with him and speak to him. The communion was blocked by unjust blood. The ground had only one thing to say to him, and … Continue reading →

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Decay Is Renewal

Posted on July 15, 2016 by ehurst

Urban decay is a renewal of nature. Today I was testing my iPhone camera and I’m embarrassed to discover it is roughly as good as the little pocket camera I used the past two years, and it’s smaller and comes … Continue reading →

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Depressing Deception

Posted on July 1, 2016 by ehurst

Our declining Western culture is shot through with false dichotomies. Sometimes it’s a prophetic duty to point them out. We are neither part of the Green religion, nor do we support blind exploitation of natural resources. We believe the heart … Continue reading →

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Toward Eden

Posted on June 26, 2016 by ehurst

If you go outside today and speak to the grass, flowers, trees and birds, you’ll discover that they aren’t too worried about Brexit. The rocks and dirt may seem untroubled by the 500 trillion dollars of notional derivative debts held … Continue reading →

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New and Ancient Normal

Posted on June 20, 2016 by ehurst

A clinical approach will give you clinical results with a utility approaching zero. Conditions permitting, I go out each morning and pick up solid waste (pollutants) around my apartment building. That it looks nicer without visible trash is just a … Continue reading →

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Psalm 104

Posted on June 11, 2016 by ehurst

This is another of those soaring lyrical songs that is impossible to summarize. What may not be obvious is that we have ample examples from other cultures across the whole region and in different millennia of the Ancient Near East … Continue reading →

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Don’t Surrender Your Kids

Posted on June 7, 2016 by ehurst

It’s all finger-pointing and blame-shifting. The teachers complain that parents don’t know how to raise well-behaved children. Parents say the teachers spend more time with their kids than they do at home, which makes the teachers the dominant influence in … Continue reading →

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Relational Heart

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ehurst

It’s not that the heart does not comprehend data, but that the heart operates on a far higher level. The realm of moral imperative is not objective or impersonal, but intensely personal. The structure of heart “thinking” is relational. The … Continue reading →

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