Posts Tagged ‘knowledge’
Is Knowing Possible?
Knowing There is an unsettling sensation tied to being in a context where it is important to know, yet we do not know. When faced with a significant business decision, when deciding whether to make that long journey, when needing to know how to address that delicate relationship issue, we want to have certainty, yet all…
Read MoreThe Source of Wisdom
When I worked with university students as a Campus Minister, I was engaged with an wide array of souls at a multiplicity of maturity levels, and yes, I mean maturity spiritually and emotionally. Some were tremendously mature adults while quite young in their faith. Others had been (nominally) in the body for many years but…
Read MoreWhat Can You Really Know?
(My apologies for the late upload of this blog posting. The passing of Mister Bear derailed so many things for me, including this blog.) One of my favorite incidents in the record of Jesus’ ministry is his encounter with the man born blind recorded in the ninth chapter of John’s gospel account. There are numerous…
Read MoreDo Not Despise Wisdom
T.S. Eliot is reputed to have asked, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” Just as there is a difference between wisdom and knowledge, there is a difference between ignorance, naiveté, and foolishness, and it moves from bad to worse as we read from…
Read More2019 – A Year of Truth
My early career in full-time ministry was devoted to working on university campuses. There, I ministered directly to young men and women who were laboring to expand their minds – to broaden their worldviews. Effective ministry to university students requires an understanding of how they view their world. I had to crawl inside their heads,…
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