Nov
4
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I’ve mentioned several times that I began my Christian sojourn as an Episcopalian. In some of my posts I have been rather merciless to my alma mater, but perhaps that’s just a manifestation of what many separated couples know all too well about the feelings one tends to have towards someone, or some thing, that [...]
Nov
4
On Thinking About the Trinity
November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment
There is an interesting little book, which used to be quite popular among philosophy majors, called Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, published by Edwin Abbot in 1884. It tells the story of a two-dimensional world populated by characters of various shapes: women are thin, straight lines, men are polygons with numbers of sides corresponding [...]