Category: Culture
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Leaving your Church in Tears
Read more: Leaving your Church in TearsI left my Church this week, and it was the most painful and beautiful thing I have ever done. For many people, Church can be a great source of pain, for others, it is a building or a place to gather. For some, Church can be a crutch, a community that supports them. As for…
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Weighing Words: The Metaphor of Gravity
Read more: Weighing Words: The Metaphor of GravityAs a student devoted to the intersection of theology and literature I’m always assessing ways in which literature accomplishes theological work and how theological thought appears in literary form. Most often these points of conversion occur by means of metaphor. To refresh your memory, metaphor is a kind of comparison in which one thing is…
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Reflections: A Boomerang Effect
Read more: Reflections: A Boomerang EffectOne of my latest antics in life happens to be pursuing another degree in biomedical diagnostics. Now, as a pastor, it’s obvious that there’s really no purpose for me to do so, but I’ve been finding this program quite unique and challenging, maybe not necessarily in content but in my personal walk with the…
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The Cursed Child Is The 8th Harry Potter Story After All! Putting the Cart before the Horcrux
Read more: The Cursed Child Is The 8th Harry Potter Story After All! Putting the Cart before the HorcruxRecently Harry Potter fans celebrated the arrival of the “nineteen years later” day from the epilogue on September 1st, 2017. Here’s an interesting write-up about this momentous occasion. In case you don’t know, this is the day that Harry and Ginny sent their son Albus Severus off to Hogwarts, which can be found in the…
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Charlottesville, Nashville, and Calvary
Read more: Charlottesville, Nashville, and CalvaryWhere to begin… Charlottesville The world knows of the American embarrassment that is the recent happenings in Charlottesville, Virginia. Neo-Nazis and white supremacists incited violence surrounding the profanely displayed statue of Confederate General and beater of freed slaves, Robert E. Lee. Gen. Lee’s brutality should be condemned along with the then-institution of chattel slavery. However, certain…
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Building a Different Type of Strength
Read more: Building a Different Type of StrengthThis post isn’t intended to shame you into working out, or for eating more than you ought, or overindulging in what is meant to be a delicacy as if it were a bowl of rice. I’m sure you feel as uncomfortable reading that as I do writing it, as these things already have major cultural…
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Understanding Why I Dressed Up as a Slave Owner
Read more: Understanding Why I Dressed Up as a Slave OwnerThes past few weeks have sucked. By far, I cannot remember a more emotionally draining, politically charged season. I kept looking at the news to see what would happen next; I kept checking Facebook to see what my friends and acquaintances thought about the events that have been unfolding. My heart is so burdened by…
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Practicing “Lively Hope”: Providence and Possibility in Dante’s Paradise
Read more: Practicing “Lively Hope”: Providence and Possibility in Dante’s ParadiseOur imaginings of the afterlife often include getting answers to questions the knowledge and experience of the world couldn’t answer. Likewise, the pilgrim of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy seeks out heavenly wisdom to satisfy his own burning question: How is God just if people who never received knowledge of Christ’s salvation or the opportunity for…
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The Two Cities turns 6!
Read more: The Two Cities turns 6!We’re so very excited to say that tomorrow marks the 6th Anniversary of The Two Cities blog! Many thanks to all of you who have read and engaged our blog posts over the years. It really means a lot to us and we’re looking forward to more of it. We’ve recently come off of a…
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Not Another Post About Refugees: Why Christians Can’t Seem to Get Along
Read more: Not Another Post About Refugees: Why Christians Can’t Seem to Get AlongI got married the day after Trump’s inauguration, and ironically, boarded a cruise ship to Mexico for an awesome honeymoon. I got back and was shocked to hear about everything that had happened in a week. What was even more shocking (sort of) was how much discord there was between Christians. Facebook itself looked like…