Archive for March, 2004

The Bleeding Heart of The Passion

Saturday, March 20th, 2004

I’ve been wanting to write something about Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ, but several things have conspired against me. I’ve just been unable to think as I normally do; it sucks.
Anyway, lots of other people have been able to think and write about the movie. Here’s one commentary about it (actually, more about […]

The Wa of Raw

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

I don’t know what it is, but the Japan Times has gotten some funny writers for their life section. Check out Amy Chavez’s thoughts on wa as she reflects on a ski trip she took with some Japanese friends:
“It’s All Written in the ‘Wa Handbook’”

Embracing the Mystery

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

Why is there so much of this paradox in Christianity? Many scientists have already weighed in on this question. They say the paradoxes are there because it is an antiquated, superstitious system of belief. And we, like faithless, dumb sheep have seen fit to try to cram God into their limited little view of reality; tried to express the inexpressible within the feeble idiom of a man-made system of thought.