Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
advice for young people thinking of college
"So what advice should you give to a young person? If you have a natural bent for scholarship; if you are attracted to the most dificult books out of an urgent need, and you can spare four years to them, go to college. In fact, approach college in the spirit of craftsmanship- delve deep into liberal arts and sciences. But if this is not the case; if the thought of four more years in a classroom makes your skin crawl, the good news is you dont have to jump through hoops in a classroom to make a decent living.
Even if you do go to college, learn a trade in the summers. You're less likely to be damaged, and quite possibly better paid as a tradesman than as a low level "creative" or a cubicle dwelling tender of information systems.
To heed such advice will require a bit of a contratian streak, as it entails rejecting a life course mapped out by others as obligatory and inevitable."
from Shopclass as Soulcraft by Matthew Craword
Even if you do go to college, learn a trade in the summers. You're less likely to be damaged, and quite possibly better paid as a tradesman than as a low level "creative" or a cubicle dwelling tender of information systems.
To heed such advice will require a bit of a contratian streak, as it entails rejecting a life course mapped out by others as obligatory and inevitable."
from Shopclass as Soulcraft by Matthew Craword
Monday, April 20, 2009
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
excellence
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
—John Gardner, in Excellence (1961)
—John Gardner, in Excellence (1961)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
A "RAPTURE" I can believe in
The Rapture, by pete rollins
Just as it was written by those prophets of old, the last days of the Earth overflowed with suffering and pain. In those dark days a huge pale horse rode through the Earth with Death upon its back and Hell in its wake. During this great tribulation the Earth was scorched with the fires of war, rivers ran red with blood, the soil withheld its fruit and disease descended like a mist. One by one all the nations of the Earth were brought to their knees.
Far from all the suffering, high up in the heavenly realm, God watched the events unfold with a heavy heart. An ominous silence had descended upon heaven as the angels witnessed the Earth being plunged into darkness and despair. But this could only continue for so long for, at the designated time, God stood upright, breathed deeply and addressed the angels,
“The time has now come for me to separate the sheep from the goats, the healthy wheat from the inedible chaff”
Having spoken these words God slowly turned to face the world and called forth to the church with a booming voice,
“Rise up and ascend to heaven all of you who have who have sought to escape the horrors of this world by sheltering beneath my wing. Come to me all who have turned from this suffering world by calling out ‘Lord, Lord’”.
In an instant millions where caught up in the clouds and ascended into the heavenly realm. Leaving the suffering world behind them.
Once this great rapture had taken place God paused for a moment and then addressed the angels, saying,
“It is done, I have separated the people born of my spirit from those who have turned from me. It is time now for us leave this place and take up residence in the Earth, for it is there that we shall find our people. The ones who would forsake heaven in order to embrace the earth. The few who would turn away from eternity itself to serve at the feet of a fragile, broken life that passes from existence in but an instant”.
And so it was that God and the heavenly host left that place to dwell among those who had rooted themselves upon the earth. Quietly supporting the ones who had forsaken God for the world and thus who bore the mark God. The few who had discovered heaven in the very act of forsaking it.
Just as it was written by those prophets of old, the last days of the Earth overflowed with suffering and pain. In those dark days a huge pale horse rode through the Earth with Death upon its back and Hell in its wake. During this great tribulation the Earth was scorched with the fires of war, rivers ran red with blood, the soil withheld its fruit and disease descended like a mist. One by one all the nations of the Earth were brought to their knees.
Far from all the suffering, high up in the heavenly realm, God watched the events unfold with a heavy heart. An ominous silence had descended upon heaven as the angels witnessed the Earth being plunged into darkness and despair. But this could only continue for so long for, at the designated time, God stood upright, breathed deeply and addressed the angels,
“The time has now come for me to separate the sheep from the goats, the healthy wheat from the inedible chaff”
Having spoken these words God slowly turned to face the world and called forth to the church with a booming voice,
“Rise up and ascend to heaven all of you who have who have sought to escape the horrors of this world by sheltering beneath my wing. Come to me all who have turned from this suffering world by calling out ‘Lord, Lord’”.
In an instant millions where caught up in the clouds and ascended into the heavenly realm. Leaving the suffering world behind them.
Once this great rapture had taken place God paused for a moment and then addressed the angels, saying,
“It is done, I have separated the people born of my spirit from those who have turned from me. It is time now for us leave this place and take up residence in the Earth, for it is there that we shall find our people. The ones who would forsake heaven in order to embrace the earth. The few who would turn away from eternity itself to serve at the feet of a fragile, broken life that passes from existence in but an instant”.
And so it was that God and the heavenly host left that place to dwell among those who had rooted themselves upon the earth. Quietly supporting the ones who had forsaken God for the world and thus who bore the mark God. The few who had discovered heaven in the very act of forsaking it.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Rauschenbusch & the King
I came early to Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis, which left an indelible imprint on my thinking by giving me a theological basis for the social concern which had already grown up in me as a result of my early experiences...
It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conations that scar the soul, is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It has well been said: "A religion that ends with the individual, ends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
from "Pilgrimage to Non Violence"
It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conations that scar the soul, is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It has well been said: "A religion that ends with the individual, ends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
from "Pilgrimage to Non Violence"
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