New Look and New Thoughts

While I am on christmas break, I was cruising around and decided to change the look of my blog. Unfortunately, all my links were erased. Blasted technology.

I stole a link off of monkey's blog, "propheteering". Interesting stuff.

Today I was reading T.S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" and found this:

All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death?
There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.

This thought of birth being filled with agony for them...I wonder if it was the waking up or realization of the new born king that built this agony, and then to return to your old life and see what was happening around them - it seems that the Magi were even more aware of this transformation. Of course this is poetry and everybody will have a different opinion except for the author.

Enjoy the Advent Season.

ron

Finally Done

...For now. I still have a year at TWU. Yep, a year from now, I will be trying to figure out where to go for a vacation, but for now I just break for the winter. Just finished a paper on the need for the prophetic voice in the contemporary church. Now I just study for a couple of finals and write a paper on the movie "big fish" and how it relates to apologetics and my life is on holiday.

Here is what I plan on doing on my break. A few of my friends wanted to start a group called "hot tub theology", but instead it kind of fell through. My plan is to take this group and start a "film theology" group for 6 weeks to see what it will look like. In this group we will read works of theologians and philosophers and then comparing them to movies and discussing this. I think that the movie is much like the modern day parable. the discussion group is not new by any means, but I think it may be fun.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
ron