Month: April 2016

time

My English black lab is named “Kai.” The name comes from “kairos” which is a Greek term for “the time in which God lives.” There are two kinds of time in theological terms. One kind of time is chronos time – chronos – like chronology – the clicking of seconds...

off line

Charles is off line and will return from Cathedral Ridge Friday.  The Daily Sip will resume Monday.

Chapter One of a Rule of Life

  Anthony of Egypt - the first monastic - Egg tempera on wood, Mount Athos, 2001, LaFond Private Collection Chapter One - Living Life by a Rule Life can be so overwhelming.  Why in the world would we make it even more complex by adding a Rule of Life?  It...

discernment – a chapter of a rule of life

  Descretio: Discernment and Discretion Jesus asks me if I am a Christian or if I am Christianish.  To be a Christian is to follow Jesus and to use Jesus’ life as a model for mine. Sometimes I find this really annoying because I often just want to go off...

Tenemos

Blackwater Bluff Farm and Pottery, New Hampshire “Tenemos” is a Greek word originally referring to the cultivated land that wrapped around the temple – a set-aside bit of holy garden one had to cross to enter the temple. Tenemos was like the moat that wraps around a castle. Our senses,...