The Doctor Is In

Introduction to the Path series, an essay on the intersection of the physical and spiritual in life.

Part 1 of the Path series, a journal of one fool’s journey, and the faith which found him.

Part 2 of the Path series, a journal of one fool’s journey, and the faith which found him.

Part 3 of the Path series, a journal of one fool’s journey, and the faith which found him.

If you’re browsing along, and see the topic of this post, chances are good you’ve already clicked the next link on your blogroll, especially if you’re not a Christian. You probably don’t realize this isn’t really a theological discourse — well, in a way it is, I suppose, as all discussions of the spiritual life […]

Third in an ongoing series on grace in Christianity:

On Purpose
Justification, Sanctification, & Grace

 
We struggled through some intimidating “God-words” — justification and sanctification – in my previous post, and in the process I lost both of my regular readers, leaving but a few wandering insomniacs whose Ambien prescription had just run short. For those now drifting […]

Fourth in an ongoing series on grace in Christianity:

On Purpose
Justification, Sanctification, & Grace
The Sword of Grace

 
We’ve spent some time recently on relatively heavy-duty topics — like justification, sanctification, and grace — as we’ve explored Christianity as a faith founded on grace and mercy rather than obligation and judgment. Most non-Christians — and far too many […]

Fifth in an ongoing series on grace in Christianity:

On Purpose
Justification, Sanctification, & Grace
The Sword of Grace
Getting to Grace

We’ve been discussing some of the core principles of how the Christian faith works — not by adhering to a new set of moral dictates or rules to follow, but by undergoing a transaction which begins with forgiveness […]

Fifth in an ongoing series on grace in Christianity:

On Purpose
Justification, Sanctification, & Grace
The Sword of Grace
Getting to Grace
The Road to Grace: Transparency

 
Honesty.
Perhaps the rarest of all human virtues, treasured mostly in its absence, brought into focus most sharply in its antithesis.
If you ponder the subject for a moment, you may well find it surprising […]

There is no answer to the question why? in the walk of faith. It is a foolish question — we could not understand the answer were it given, and to know why would destroy the how, and the when, and the for which purpose. The answer is unfathomable. To know why? is to be God — and despite my aspirations, I don’t have the resume for the job.

It was time.
The bare bulb threw sharp shadows, angular in their diminished brilliance, leaving remote closet corners barely illuminated. Casting about the cluttered closet — that mortuary of materialism where much that was once precious now lies entombed in dust and disuse — a glimpse of a black vinyl case peaked through the litter: this […]