Category: Religion
224: Stay with problems longer
Conversation Between Miroslav Volf & David Martin with a short reflection on “Modern Malaysia”
One key notion struck me in this conversation, that is the idea of “alternative modernitiesâ€. If we can say there is a “USA modelâ€, and now since being in Norway I’m more alerted to a “Norwegian modelâ€, I wonder what a “Malaysian model†looks like. How do we imagine it to look like today…
Random Utterances 6
“The symbol gives gives rise to thought.†– Paul Ricoeur “… if we can no longer live the great symbolisms of the sacred in accordance with original belief in them, we can … aim at a second naïveté in and through criticism. In short, it is by interpreting that we can hear again.†– Paul…
210: Browsing under the sun
Random Utterances 2
"Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its homecoming festival." — Mikhail Bakhtin "It is quite possible to imagine and postulate a unified truth that requires a plurality of consciousnesses, one that cannot… be fitted into the bounds of a single consciousness, one that is, so to speak, by its very nature full of…
Agnostic Gospel Song (by Andy Corwin)
Please don’t get offended, but this is seriously funny and some will appreciate it more than others!