“Christianity is not about religion; it’s about a relationship.” If you have run in Christian circles for the past ten years, or even if you have just run into a Christian in the past ten years, you’ve heard this little apothegm. I have grown very weary of hearing it, but I’ve always wondered where it came from and whatContinue reading “All Hail Schleiermacher!”
Category Archives: Philosophy
The Prophet Nietzsche
A main component of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thinking was the notion of a master-slave morality. He asserts that in society there are people with power, aka masters, and people without power, aka slaves. I think we can all agree with that idea. We may not agree with the terms, master and slave, but we agree that there are people withContinue reading “The Prophet Nietzsche”
In the beginning…
Yesterday, I tried to start my writing career. It failed. The Internet gave me guff. Maybe it wasn’t my time. Maybe I had too many needless words. Omit, cries William Strunk, omit needless words! Today, I tried again. Success.