Blog, Drawn In, Episode 2
There’s a scene in the film Pirates of the Caribbean where Elizabeth Swan, who plays Miss Turner, is confronted by a dead pirate named Hector Barbossa who tells her, “You best start believin’ in ghost stories Miss Turner. You’re in one!” Last week we explored what...
Blog, By This Way of Life, Failing Falling Flying
by Rev. Eric Elnes, Ph.D. Last Tuesday we observed the eleventh anniversary of an event that so penetrated our national psyche that it is remembered merely by its date: 9/11. A lot has changed since 9/11/2001, hasn’t it? Really, what area of life...
Blog, By This Way of Life, Failing Falling Flying
by Dr. Eric Elnes In his book East of Eden, Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck makes an astute observation about story-telling through one of his characters who asserts that “If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great...
Blog, By This Way of Life, Failing Falling Flying
by Eric Elnes, Ph.D. Last week we explored the first Creation Account in Genesis 1, reading it alongside the Babylonian story of creation. Many of you expressed surprise to learn that Genesis 1 was written as a distinctly Hebrew response to–and polemic...
Blog, By This Way of Life
by Eric Elnes 1. Field of Engagement Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make...
"Waypoint Two: 'Hookers, Looters, and Cheats: Curious Companions of Jesus'", Blog
by Eric Elnes I. DNA, Clay, and the Scots So I had this really strange experience just as I sat down to write this blog on Friday. I noticed my mother had sent me an email with a link to a DNA test I took months ago when I was in Arizona. She has been studying our...
"Waypoint Two: 'Hookers, Looters, and Cheats: Curious Companions of Jesus'", Blog, Hookers, Hookers, Looters, and Cheats, Looters and Cheats, Week 1: Hooker who showed "great love"
by Eric Elnes I. Who Would Jesus Visit? If Jesus were alive today and lived in your neighborhood, who do you suppose he would spend his time with? On Sundays would you find him in church pews or soup kitchens? On Tuesdays would he be addressing the church council...
