The Death of a Grand Mythos |
The Limits of CreationWe would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the presentAnd let our illusions dieW.H. Auden, The Age of AnxietyI am a boomer. I h...
Posted by From The Bunker on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:26:00 PST |
Repalce Your Life with Your Career |
Years of modern philosophical constructs surrounding our description of life have now made the soul a commodity to be maximized. The work of our hands and hearts have now become mechanisms for profite...
Posted by From The Bunker on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:16:00 PST |
The Politics of Suffering |
Empathy & Compassion as an Embodied Response"I feel your pain." This statement has become a bit of iconic humorous presidential lore as delivered by Bill Clinton in recent years but I think ...
Posted by From The Bunker on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:51:00 PST |
Holy Discontent as Time |
When Waiting is No Longer an OptionThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Maria Rainier RilkeThe greatest barrier to moving into a new place in God is t...
Posted by From The Bunker on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:03:00 PST |
The Divine Consolation |
To be Enlarged by NeedIt is one thing to see the weak, appreciate their status, and pray for their condition. It is entirely a different proposition to actually be counted amongst the weak. To count o...
Posted by From The Bunker on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:08:00 PST |
Being Human in Public |
Community as an Intentional & Sustained Spiritual ConversationLife opportunities have offered to me the experiential difference between solitude and isolation. Given my need to write, a degree of ...
Posted by From The Bunker on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:25:00 PST |
The Sacred Messiness of Life |
Gone from mystery into mysteryGone from daylight into nightAnother step deeper into the darknessCloser to the lightBruce CockburnI serve a God who hides. There are times when regardless of my rituals ...
Posted by From The Bunker on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:39:00 PST |
The Risk of Longing / The Power of Communal Dreaming |
We all have aspirations. We all have dreams and goals. But I am convinced that too much talk about life as though it were controllable if one only figured out all the steps has inadvertently made drea...
Posted by From The Bunker on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:03:00 PST |
Church Musing .9 |
Church Musing 9 As many of you know, Kathy and I had to rush to Michigan to an ill father. He had gotten food poisoning and then flu on top of it. All this caused dehydration on the extreme side....
Posted by From The Bunker on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:41:00 PST |
Post Modernsims (Sayings from the core) |
BUNKERISMS Possible saying for pomo t-shirts Respect complexity~deep spirituality is not obvious Without compassion intelligence breeds self interest Discernment: The gather...
Posted by From The Bunker on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:33:00 PST |
