Tim Coomar - Stars will fade... but Christ will shine forever

Nietzsche on self-deception

"I have done that", says my memory. "I cannot have done that" — says my pride, and remains adamant. At last — memory yields. – Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Neil Gaiman

Let's pretend, together

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I

What did Jesus wear?

Jesus wore the livery of the poor man. If we are to be Christ in the world, we must not forget this. Wherever possible we must identify with and serve the poor man and woman. – Author unknown

Kimberlé Crenshaw

The Basement

He: So, do you come here often? She: Is this some kind of joke? He: Sorry, no, I'm not trying to hit on you. Well, maybe it might have crossed

poetry

Don't get too comfortable

Don't get too comfortable; This world is not your home. Well, obviously it is; From the lights in the sky To the dust on the ground, Every last piece of it Whispers it to you, In those moments when life Is not so clamorous,

poetry

Ruinous

Every place he passed through, he left in ruins, But he was good looking, So nobody seemed to notice.

poetry

I need

I need the one who has overcome the world I need him I need him now. I need to know that things won't always be like this I need to

articles

Passengers... (no more)

Adult life sometimes feels like you are stuck in an endless cycle of tending to childhood wounds and pursuing unfulfilled teenage dreams. Everyone not involved in tending to those early

theology

Reading reality like the magi

...we read reality in the same way as we read the nativity: knowing what Herod does not know – Myrto Theocharous

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Capitalism is only the symptom, your inner despot is the real problem

These, then, are the three fundamental principles of modern society, established one after another by the movements of 1789 and 1830: 1. Sovereignty of the human will; in short, despotism.

poetry

The Love Affair

I had a love affair with a man. We first locked eyes across a crowded courtyard; A furtive nod, a gesture, a questioning look, "Is it ok to smoke here, guv?" (or the equivalent Greek phrase). Instant connection. In a manner of speaking. After

poetry

Pretend like you never get sad

There it is again, that poker face Fooling no one, yet revealing nothing Not even a slight twitch To give away the presence of a heart... Only the eyes, Pointing down then darting quickly up; A failed attempt at misdirection. How deep have you

Lesslie Newbigin

Love is surrender

There are vast reaches of experience which are only available to us when we are willing to open our hearts and imaginations to the appeal of beauty, to the deep sense of our kinship with nature and – above all – to the appeal of love.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Fleabag gives voice to my generation

Even before season two, Fleabag was already my favourite series of the decade. Season two did nothing to change that, but it did introduce an intriguing new dimension through the

Feuerbach

Is God merely a projection?

Feuerbach’s basic idea was that God is a projection of the highest human ideals. Thus we have ideas of justice and goodness and charity, and we project them in their perfection onto God. Now, there’s a good deal of truth in Feuerbach’

poetry

The Smirk

I have seen the face of evil And it was a smirk Looking back at me In the mirror

politics

Only as competitors

Every political theory assumes an anthropology, and every anthropology underwrites some political trajectory. If we are merely thinking things, or consuming animals, then our autonomy and independence are prior to any “we,” in which case the social will be a kind of grand fiction

c.s.lewis

Go and look in the cupboard...

It is Reason herself which teaches us not to rely on Reason only... For Reason knows that she cannot work without materials. When it becomes clear that you cannot find out by reasoning whether the cat is in the linen-cupboard, it is Reason herself

Thomas Chalmers

The heart must be filled with something

You have all heard that Nature abhors a vacuum. Such at least is the nature of the heart, that though the room which is in it may change one inmate for another, it cannot be left void without the pain of most intolerable suffering.

money

No allegiance to capitalism

One of the results of capitalism that we see developing throughout the nineteenth century is the subservience of being to having. This result makes allegiance to capitalism virtually impossible for a Christian. For it is not a by-product, something that might not have happened,

humanism

Closing the window...?

Exclusive humanism closes the transcendent window, as though there were nothing beyond. More, as though it weren't an irrepressible need of the human heart to open that window, and first look, then go beyond. As though feeling this need were the result of a

Nietzsche

The delicate atheist

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questioning, too high spirited to be satisfied with such

Hermann Bavinck

God is shareable

God is shareable, in an absolute sense within, and in a relative sense outside of, the Divine being. — Hermann Bavinck

David Bentley-Hart

Nietzsche’s good manners

[Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all for its devotion to an ethics of compassion--rather than allow himself the soothing, self-righteous fantasy that Christianity's history had been nothing but an interminable pageant of violence,

anarchism

Proudhon's secret weapon

Rulers do not fear the cry, “anarchy is chaos”, for this consolidates power in their hands as 'the last bastion against disorder and societal breakdown'. The cry they truly fear