Author Archives: Steve

We could never have done it without them

A Star Called Henry is Roddy Doyle’s novel about a street urchin become IRA operative in the early days of the Revolution. Before I went back to bed that night I’d been sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood…I was special, one of the few. And before the end of the week, by late Saturday afternoon, …

March 17, 2012 – 12:39 pm | By Steve | Posted in Us and Them, Violence | Comments Off

Fabricius Doodlings

A mind afloat is a wonderful thing…     Good theology is like fishing on a sunny summer afternoon, when you throw back most of the catch; bad theology is like a feverish hunt for the White Whale. Arguments for the existence of God are a puzzle to the non-believer, a crossword puzzle to the …

January 9, 2012 – 10:46 am | By Steve | Posted in Kim Fabricius | Comments Off

Something essential, something real

Expositing 1 John 3:11-18, Rob Bell was painting a picture in his unique way regarding the difference between that which impacts us in the head vs. the gut (KVJ- “bowels”/splanchnon), ended with this prayer from Gorillas of Grace, Prayer for the Battle, by Tod Loder ["Opening your Splanchnon" — Mars Hill Bible Church, July 17, …

December 5, 2011 – 8:00 pm | By Steve | Posted in Prayer, Rob Bell | Comments Off

He was alive as it was possible to be

Monsieur Gillenormand, who was as alive as it was possible to be in 1831 was one of those men who have become a curiosity solely because they have lived a long while, and who are odd because once upon a time they looked like everyone else and now they don’t look like anyone. He was …

December 2, 2011 – 5:14 pm | By Steve | Posted in Les Miserables | Comments Off