ofthewedge

rooting around for grubs in diverse soils

christianity

  • Point at Jesus, and then get out of the way

    Twenty years ago John Pridmore retired from the Anglican ministry. He had served as a team rector and ultimately Rector of Hackney parish since 1995. He passed away on 29 September. His self-effacement belied a presence that towered up to his flowing white mane and beard, an accidental Moses descending apologetically with someone else’s tablets… Read more

  • Shattered glass and toppling masonry

    Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica Humanitascompares the current state of technological development to the Tower of Babel.  Babel represents ‘where collective effort follows a plan that dominates and ultimately dehumanizes’, and where men’s hubris ends in ruin. Technology is advancing out of sync with ‘growth in humanity’. We are ‘”having more” without “being more”’.… Read more

  • Trump’s base base

    Source: Barna Group 2013 “…and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.” Second Book of Kings 9:20 Every day I wake up to notifications from across the Atlantic of some fresh wickedness perpetuated by the United States Administration, occupying the airwaves as the evening moved west… Read more

  • Secrets and fictions (I)

    Exploitation does not pertain to corrupt or imperfect or primitive society: it pertains to the essence of the living thing as a fundamental organic function, it is the consequence of the intrinsic will to power which is precisely the will of life. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Close readers of this blog may have surmised… Read more