Mirror Dimly Blog

On October 14, I set aside 24 hours for silence, solitude and prayer. The quotes are from Henri Nouwen's "The Way of the Heart." Here is my reflection. The excitement of anticipating a day of solitude eventually ebbed away as I confronted its discomforting reality.

The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology. And ideology does not beckon [people]. In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of every sign: rigid. And when a Christian becomes…

"In some parts of contemporary Christianity, the Psalms are no longer used in daily and weekly worship. This is so especially at points where there has been remarkable growth in numbers and energy, not least through the charismatic movements in various denominations. The enormously popular…

I am finding myself drawn the beauty that comes from candid concession of inherent brokenness. Truthful transparency is vulnerability, which by definition, is the "susceptibility to physical or emotional harm." Yet paradoxically, in it, there is much strength and freedom. There requires a sense of…

I've been wondering about the musical mechanisms we have employed in Christian Evangelical circles. I'm thinking of the two very different modes of musical worship - one which hold's thoughtful and systematic planning in high regard, and the other which hold's spontaneity in high regard.