Tag: Writing Challenge
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4. Exhortation
Something I wrestle with a lot, often to the point of exhausted inaction, is communication. The problem when you’re dealing with ideas like Being-with-a-capital-B, the transcendent, etc. is precisely the capital B, the fact of transcendence. The transcendent, by definition, transcends us. It can’t be captured in words, concepts, and the like, because if it…
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3. Genesis 1-4
One of the many, potentially fool-hardy and doomed to failure, projects I’ve given to myself in the recent past is a reading of the whole of the Bible. Currently, I’m lost somewhere at the tail end of Exodus, unable to find the time each day to devote to the project (the time is there, it’s…
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2. Existence
“I exist” is unique and indubitable, there is no possible rival belief. On top of this, we seem compelled to believe that others exist as well. We claim, at least some claim, we can doubt* this, but can we? We go on speaking regardless. More, what is the self without other selves? We come to…
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1. Writing Challenge
“Do something, or do nothing at all. Do ardently whatever you decide to do; do it with your might; and let the whole of your activity be a series of vigorous fresh starts. Half-work, which is half-rest, is good neither for rest nor for work.” – A.G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life I tell myself, over…
Dan Yingst 