The voice of our wonderful Colombian-born veterinarian was somber when I called her from Frankfurt to inquire on the results of Tucker’s biopsy. The veterinariological technical lingo added up to just one thing: Tucker is not long for this world. ‘Just enjoy him!’, she counseled with the textured, comprehending warmth of a woman who could [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Tucker’s last Spring
Posted in fauna, my hometown, paterfamilias, tagged fauna, Tucker on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
faulty materials: 2 Samuel 24-1 Kings 1 // Luke 22
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Samuel, textures on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The biblical material assiduously undermines the logic of human achievement. When Yahweh does his remarkable work, he nearly always uses badly flawed human agents. The waning days of David’s rule read like an ‘I told you so’ anti-monarchical screed. The aged king commits the atrocity of numbering his people, a violation of the tribal traditions [...]
an audacious claim: Luke 18
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus makes plan to those who would follow him that the cost of doing so was everything they owned and everything they were. His was an exclusive claim upon their loyalty and the virtual extinction of their self-determination. Yet in the odd economy of the ‘kingdom of God’ whose imminence and presence he proclaimed, there [...]
Gittai’s truth: 2 Samuel 14–16
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Samuel, textures on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the face of his son Absalom’s insurrection, David’s flight to the desert is the stage upon which a colorful handful of characters display, respectively, deepest loyalty, most loathsome self-interest, and opportunistic vengeance. It seems that David’s prior sojourn in Gath has won him the loyalty of a considerable number of Gittites. One of them, [...]
fixed object to portable companion: Garmin Portable Friction Dashboard Mount for Nüvi Series and StreetPilot I Series, C530, C550 and C580 GPS Navigators
Posted in reseña, two hippos make an island, tagged gadgets, travel on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After discovering this product, one wonders why we ever stuck those adhesive mounts to our windshields to announce to passing thieves, ‘Stop here! Easy hit!’.
sudden turns: 1 Samuel 27-29 // Luke 17
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Samuel, textures on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Faith that is shaped and nourished by regular contact with Scripture learns to anticipate sudden turns in circumstances. More often than not a certain merciful lurching becomes our experience as what some call Providence directs our steps in ways that contain equal parts peril and mercy.
worthless slaves: Luke 17
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The institution of slavery and the concept of duty no longer arouse us to noble thoughts. We find the first offensive and the second pedestrian. More often than not our moral aesthetics not only incapacitate us for sympathetic reading. They also betray us by the extreme selectivity with which we assign deficits to the moral [...]
the abundance of madmen: 1 Samuel 20-21
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Samuel, textures on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rarely does an ancient document explore the nuance and pathos of human experience as probingly as the so-called ‘History of David’s Rise’. This deep current in the Deuteronomistic History gives us not only the hero-in-waiting story of David’s encounter with the Philistine miscreant Goliath but also the deeply moving parting of David and Saul’s son [...]
a hope worth strengthening: Ian McCallum, Ecological Intelligence. Rediscovering ourselves in nature
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged creation, Ian McCallum, reseña, stewardship on April 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ian McCallum worries about the human species. He worries broadly, deeply, poetically, mystically, entertainingly, passionately, and challengingly. We are deeply diseased, McCallum believes, and we are inflicting our plague on the earth we inherit as the evolutionarily privileged human animal. In Ecological Intelligence, McCallum tells us that healing—as opposed to quick-fix mending–will occur only as [...]
Samuel’s complex grief: 1 Samuel 13-15
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Samuel, textures on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The seer Samuel’s proximity to Yahweh’s counsel makes him the pivotal figure in the Saul narrative. His gaze penetrates the smoky gray of events, illuminating in forboding sentences the direction that Yahweh would have them go. Samuel must have made unpleasant company, not the kind for smalltalk and oerdeurves. One felt his presence as an [...]
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