To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Hannah Arendt

  • The End of a World

    Have you ever wondered why the Bible uses the word “kosmos” to express what we call “world“? Well, maybe the more exciting way to pose the question is to look at what we use today’s word “kosmos” for. It is used to name the universe. Dah. But then there is “cosmetics.” What does it mean?…

  • Arborescent or Rhizomatic Structures

    For centuries, we have looked at the New and the Old Testaments and have defined our doctrine and church structures based on our understanding of what we read. We did not realize how much our own worldview skewed our understanding. We all live in a hierarchical world. We had no experience with non-hierarchical systems, and…

  • Easter

    If we were blunt enough, it is about us as gods with him.

  • Is Thinking a Lack of Trust

    Have people ever told you that you overthink? In most environments, this translates to people wanting you to ease up and be more chill, less analytical, and less demanding. Church often adds another dimension to this thought pattern. To overthink is to question and thus lack trust. Or it is to worry and invite the…

  • Is God ready to die for us?

    Is God ready to die for us? Christians would ask what a question that is supposed to be, as the answer is an emphatic yes, proven by historical facts. Did Jesus not do precisely that? I propose a different narrative. Let us, for a moment, look at Jesus’ death as a prophetic enactment of a…

  • Merry Christmas

    I have a divided relationship with Christmas. It is remembering the beginning of the season that opened up the ways of thinking and seeing the tree of life again. God is becoming one of us so we can realize that we are one of his kind. The trinity never was a trinity but a multitude.…

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