Advent
Advent Begins. Or Continues.
Toward what is your clever Advent calendar counting down?
K. W. Holland
I'm a man who shares his life with a wonderful husband and two lively, lovely dogs. Christian; sinner; Episcopalian; reader; writer; stage 4 cancer survivor.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Self-Justifying Means
Genies, bottles, toothpaste, tubes.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Disappearing End
The means justify the means. Ellul writes that humans have set off at high speeds toward nowhere.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Christian Freedom
Christians are here to preserve the world, not to save it.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Christian Realism
Christians must approach every political and social situation individually, from the perspective of their place in God's Kingdom, because Christianity cannot be reduced to mere principles or doctrine.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Living into the Future
What is the right way to live when you know how your story ends?
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on Being Christian in a Disordered World
Christians belong to two cities. What can it mean when one tries to take that truism seriously?
Kierkegaard
Don't forget, you're alive.
I don't need to be reminded of my mortality.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the State of Permanent Christian Revolution
Christians exist in a state of permanent revolution, not against the government but against the world.
Jacques Ellul
Ellul on the Revolutionary Spirit Against the Facts
Jacques Ellul defines the revolutionary spirit and says that facts are not true.
free will
Determinism Means You Can Do Anything You Want
I have no choice but to write a snarky response to this interview claiming that free will doesn't exist.
Jacques Ellul
Things Fall Apart, But the Center, It Holds
Political debates, Jacques Ellul wrote, are always about power, never about change. The appearance of movement and development are illusions.