The Unionists

From the Pens of a Pair of Contrarians

What do the words of R.W. Emerson and William Barclay have to do with one another? Actually, quite a bit.

The Incarnation, and Inhabitation, at Leuthen

How a snow-swept night in the middle of the Third Silesian War gives us perfect pictures of both the Arrival and Investment of the life of Jesus.

Falling in Love while Falling in Line

A new "life message" for me.

Small things, greatly. Great things, easily.

The life of Union beautifully upsets our understandings of scale.

To Bethsaida, via Paris

Some of my own history (and struggles, and learnings, and faltering attempts) in learning to write and describe in order to better bring Him into focus.

Out-topping the world

When I begin to become angsty about the Early Church, it's time to listen to Socrates talking with Pericles the Younger...

"...forward into the first line..."

Julius Caesar, at the Sabis (57 B.C.), as a picture of our Savior, Jesus the Christ, in the middle of our Today.

Repent... towards Jesus... and His line of duty...

How the whisper of the Holy Spirit can reorient our experience of the Word and the importance of Today.

Our Life Himself

Listening to Augustine, we can move beyond the quantitative/qualitative version of Jesus into the true reality: He is Life-as-it-truly-is.

"...Christ's good brother."

Echoes from a gorgeous poem by Dylan Thomas.