Main Themes I’m Working on Now…
Lifting the Weight of Culture
Culture shapes us before we can have our say about it. Sometimes, within its rhythms and tempos, new modes of experience become possible—ways of sensing, relating, and moving through cultures whose weight has, for a moment, become a little less burdensome.
Eternal Recurrence
This isn’t really that hard to get. Physics is starting to catch up with it.

A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
Practices of Time in the New Testament
The Grand Narrative
How to see common things as compositions of time
Chronology
A running list of posts

Reading the Iliad: Wisdom and Violence
The first of an ongoing re-engagement with the Iliad. Here we have an untimely meditation that holds up the mirror of violence to a culture desparately in need of alternatives to vendettas.

Mercy without Recognition

A New Soteriology

“And Lead Us Not into Temptation, but Deliver Us from Evil”

Claims and Debts Revisited

“Thy Will Be Done, on Earth as It Is in Heaven”

“And Forgive us our Debts, As we Also Forgive Our Debtors”

Levinas

“Bearing Witness to the Differend”: Simone Weil’s Relational Soul

“The Differend” as Spiritual Practice

Re-Reading The Postmodern Condition

Overcoming Ressentiment: Belief Versus Practice
