It’s a simple distinction. When a panel of judges selects one competitor to be the champion, the others don’t benefit from the selection. They go home losers. (Cue Queen music…) But when a nation elects a new leader, the entire nation benefits. He or she passes legislation that they elected him to pass, etc. The biblical doctrine of… Continue reading selected v. elected
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unnatural realism
If I had to provide a name for my infantile photography style, it would have to be unnatural realism. ‘Realism’ in the sense that I find myself growing intolerant of hyper-edited shots that look nothing at all like the world. Over-highlighted, over (or under) exposed and saturated, shadows removed, etc. All to just make it… Continue reading unnatural realism
scandalous particularity
God was (for most of our western egalitarian sensitivities) scandalously ‘narrow’ or ‘choosy’ or ‘particular’ in his way of saving his creation. He saves his creation by uniting to and thus transforming it. He did not unite to all created nature in general (this or that star, or planet, or soil or rocks, trees, etc.:… Continue reading scandalous particularity
on election
No, not the recent U.S. election… rather the biblical doctrine of election. (This will be a quick one)