Thank you for sharing that Byrd article! Made me sign up for a Mere Orthodoxy account, but more to the point, it plays well with some other ideas I'm kicking around, and that is my favorite thing of all -- when things I'm reading talk to each other.
The two related movements of covering and revealing, atonement and apocalypse - it's something I've never thought about! I hope you find it helpful as it dialogues with all your other thoughts.
Psalm 148 is a beautiful melody! Spotify had failed to bring that to my attention in spite of all our Psalm listening. Thank you!!! We will be learning that one as a family.
Lilith! Yes! My wife is reading it right now (after me trying to convince her for years), and it's like our marriage is taking a new and deeper step. Haha. That book haunts me. Also thank you for recommending "Why God Hides." Always honored to have your rec.
“But sometimes—most times—suffering is not for us to resolve, and we must instead throw ourselves on the mercy of God, and have faith that he can and will resolve a situation to which we can see no solution, even if the resolution is granted in the next life..”
Man that article on embryo adoption gave me so much to think about… I had previously seen it as an act of repentance to support it, and perhaps the Lord can accept it that way, we are fragile and stupid and he understands that. But it was such a good reminder to me that we can’t slap a bandaid on something so broken and say “here this makes it better”
This is why we can’t go against God’s created order and will… because we can’t ever fix the harm we cause. We must simply cry out for mercy and try to have these conversations, however difficult.
(As Matthew put it in the related piece: "There is only one way out, I think, for our society to come to terms with the tragedy we have created: own it. The grave moral wrongs we have inflicted by creating life in laboratories cannot be remedied by our own hands... Maintaining the memory of the deaths we have caused is not atonement, but it would at least show we recognize our need for mercy.")
I'm actually not super familiar with him, myself! But trying to revisit a few works of his this year, after a gap of many years. I know Phantastes is a classic (I want to return to it soon, as I remember enjoying it post-college) and The Princess and the Goblin might be his most well-known.
Thank you for sharing that Byrd article! Made me sign up for a Mere Orthodoxy account, but more to the point, it plays well with some other ideas I'm kicking around, and that is my favorite thing of all -- when things I'm reading talk to each other.
The two related movements of covering and revealing, atonement and apocalypse - it's something I've never thought about! I hope you find it helpful as it dialogues with all your other thoughts.
Psalm 148 is a beautiful melody! Spotify had failed to bring that to my attention in spite of all our Psalm listening. Thank you!!! We will be learning that one as a family.
Lilith! Yes! My wife is reading it right now (after me trying to convince her for years), and it's like our marriage is taking a new and deeper step. Haha. That book haunts me. Also thank you for recommending "Why God Hides." Always honored to have your rec.
Matthew *is* actually a lot of fun to be around, and I imagine you would be, too, Haley! 🤣
(audibly laughing)
“But sometimes—most times—suffering is not for us to resolve, and we must instead throw ourselves on the mercy of God, and have faith that he can and will resolve a situation to which we can see no solution, even if the resolution is granted in the next life..”
Man that article on embryo adoption gave me so much to think about… I had previously seen it as an act of repentance to support it, and perhaps the Lord can accept it that way, we are fragile and stupid and he understands that. But it was such a good reminder to me that we can’t slap a bandaid on something so broken and say “here this makes it better”
This is why we can’t go against God’s created order and will… because we can’t ever fix the harm we cause. We must simply cry out for mercy and try to have these conversations, however difficult.
Amen and amen.
(As Matthew put it in the related piece: "There is only one way out, I think, for our society to come to terms with the tragedy we have created: own it. The grave moral wrongs we have inflicted by creating life in laboratories cannot be remedied by our own hands... Maintaining the memory of the deaths we have caused is not atonement, but it would at least show we recognize our need for mercy.")
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Brick later! I've been curious about it. :)
I hope these comments are an ok place to ask: Can someone tell me where to start reading George MacDonald?
I'm actually not super familiar with him, myself! But trying to revisit a few works of his this year, after a gap of many years. I know Phantastes is a classic (I want to return to it soon, as I remember enjoying it post-college) and The Princess and the Goblin might be his most well-known.