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Mark 3:31-35: Who Is, Here Is
This essay reads Mark 3:31–35 as a decisive reconfiguration of belonging. Kinship is no longer anchored in blood, tradition, or continuity, but in presence and action—who is here, and what is done. Time is no longer something one inherits; it is something one inhabits. Ethical identity emerges not from origin, but from participation in a living moment.
Paul in Athens
The Things of God and the Things of Humanity
This essay examines the tension between divine and human action not as a metaphysical divide, but as a practical distinction that shapes how time is lived. Rather than separating sacred from secular, it asks how responsibility is distributed across moments of decision. The question is not what belongs to God and what belongs to humanity in principle, but how action unfolds under conditions of finite agency,
Kairos and Continuity
This essay takes up the ancient distinction between chronos and kairos to explore how time can be lived as more than succession. Kairos names the charged moment—the opening in which action matters disproportionately to duration. Read alongside continuity, kairos becomes not a rupture from time, but a way of inhabiting it attentively, without surrendering to either stasis or acceleration.
Mercy without Recognition
Mercy is often framed as an extension of recognition: seeing oneself in the other. This essay pushes in the opposite direction. It explores mercy as an act that does not rely on identification or reciprocity, but on attentiveness to the moment at hand. Mercy here is not sentiment but temporal discipline—an ethical response that resists calculation, delay, and justification.
Luke 9:57-62: Roads, Renunciation and Following
The Nature of Sin
Time Untethered from Motion
The first in a series of meditations coming to terms with Hans Blumenberg’s The Genesis of the Copernican World. This is an important work for anyone interested in time as practice.
Religion, Philosophy, Time
Hamlet’s Ressentiment
A New Soteriology
Four Meditations on Scandal and Ressentiment
Beyond Balance
The Will to truth as The Will to Certainty
Raymond Sebond
Cartesian Infinity and Certainty
Thoughts as Expressions of the Soul
Amore Fati and St. Anthony
Republic Book 6: Truth and Beauty
