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...
Blog, Gifts of the Dark Wood, Week 7: Gift of Doubt
by Eric Elnes War on Easter? Have you ever noticed how, come Christmas time, the news is full of stories about the “War on Christmas.” It’s like clockwork. You reach December – or even October or November – and suddenly the drums start...
Blog, Gifts of the Dark Wood, Week 4: Gift of Temptation
Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive…then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman When was the last time you were seriously tempted to do something overtly sinister or evil? I’m not...
