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  • A Bottom-Up Creed, Take 4c: Love’s Dominion

    Well, I think I’m converging. At least, I haven’t come up with a better name (or numbering scheme :-). What do you think? They say perfection comes, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing to take away. Is there any more to take away?

  • A Bottom-Up Creed, Take 3: Love’s Dominion

    If at first (or second) you don’t succeed, try, try again. 🙂 This time with yet another nifty title, focusing more on the approach itself rather than (merely) reacting against modernity. [Read more] to see if I’m making any progress…

  • A Retro-Modern Creed, Take II: The C of Love

    As promised, here’s another attempt at a post-modern creed. However, I’ve chosen to use the term “retro-modern”, as this looks back towards modernistic creeds in a way informed by post-modern critiques. In particular, it posits “love” as the universal concept which transcends societal relativism, the way Einstein’s “c” (the speed…

  • A Post-Modern Creed, Take One: Truth, Justice and Love

    In the Epilogue A Generous Orthodoxy, Brian confesses that the one thing he’d do differently would be to change the title to something like “Towards a Generous Orthodoxy”, since he’s providing more of a journey than a destination. I see this as both the strength and the weakness of his…

  • DiaBlogue: The Pursuit of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

    In a A Scattered Review of The Pilgrim’s Regress, Alan does an excellent job of summarizing the intersection of Lewis’ ramblings and our diablogue. I must commend him on such a quick and comprehensive read, as well as a remarkably concise summation. Alan then asks, “Ernie, is there anything to…

  • Psalm 33 Rational Exuberance

    Questions: Do we have any right to be happy? Is God really trustworthy? Is joy attainable? Even mandatory? “Read More” to pursue answers in the Psalms.

  • Re-Deemed by Ernest N. Prabhakar

    The following poem is a sequel to Trappist.

  • Trappist by Ernest N. Prabhakar

    The following poem was inspired by Kenneth, but it isn’t about him. It is about me.

  • DiaBlogue: CAWK-ward Comments

    Alan provides a lucid and gentle view of What Is Wrong with Christianity (and People), in response to my relatively Hate -ful post. While his description was more than fair, there were a few very minor potential confusions I wanted to clear up. I started by creating a comment, but…

  • Psalm 32 Cover Up

    Questions: What do we hide from? Why? Where are we trying to go? How do we expect to get there? What price will we ultimately pay? What reward do we ultimately seek? “Read More” to pursue answers in the Psalms.

  • DiaBlogue: What I Hate About Christianity (As We Know It)

    I have finally concluded that my primary DiaBlogue strategy — trying to invent a “common ground” of shared understand — is unlikely to succeed. Virtually none of the various proposals for ontology and divinity I floated have met with Alan’s approval. Worse, even though we managed to agree on a…

  • ToLD: The Theory of Love’s Dominion

    In Theology and Political Science, the term Dominion Theory — which seems to cover both Dominion Theology and Dominionism — refer to a cluster of related ideologies that start from the assumption that God has explicitly granted humanity Dominion over nature; and usually some people Dominion over others! Historically, this…

  • DiaBlogue: Orthodoxy, Generously

    While I’ve been busy with various projects on my other blog, Alan replied to my quest for Enlightenment? and Truth and Trust with discussions of: * Enlightening Bug * On the Evolution of Religion [not formally part of the series] * Practical Truth * (In)coherent Mumbling I was particularly encouraged…

  • Psalm 31 What, Ashamed?

    Questions: What is our God? Whom do we trust to take away our shame? “Read More” to pursue answers in the Psalms.

  • FLOD: The Fountain of Love’s Overflowing Dominion

    The following was partly inspired by a dream I had, sort of a cross between Cars and the Amazing Race, where I pulled into a gas station whose pump handle was like a can opener (the old kind that punched holes instead of removing the top). I sensed that God…

  • Psalm 30 Just Praise

    Questions: Does God ever want our foes to win? Should He? Should we? What’s really most important? What’s the price of failing to seek it? Can we know? If we know, what must we do? “Read More” to pursue answers in the Psalms.

  • Psalm 29 Voice Lessons

    Questions: Why should we “give it up” for God? How powerful is his voice? What does this say about God? How does He relate to us? “Read More” to pursue answers in the Psalms .

  • DiaBlogue: Of Truth and Trust

    Alan was kind enough to send me a short email saying he was 1) busy, and 2) confused by my last post about the “love connection” and suggested I might want to go ahead and answer his other questions. That may take a while, though, so I did want to…

  • Boston Consulting Group, on Charity Transformation

    Every time I’m tempted to get cynical about my former life as a management consultant, my alma mater BCG goes and does something thoughtful — and transformational! — like this (Read More).

  • DiaBlogue: Enlightenment?

    Moreover, I am asserting (admittedly without proof, at this point) that my paradigm is actually more robust than yours, in that it can explain: why your paradigm works at all where it breaks down what happens beyond your realm of validityThis hearkens back to a point I made earlier, that…