Hegemony, Sin, the True self, and Some Training

Sometimes when I run a word pops into my head. I end up thinking about that word the entire run; sometimes the entire week. I just keep churning it around in my mind. I’ll use it in a sentence. Play with its cognates. Hear myself saying (in my head; I don’t actually say it out

Lent Day Four

Psalm 32 “Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” I find it interesting that both ‘transgression’ and ‘sin’ are in the singular. It’s not my sins or my transgressions, but by sin and my transgression—singular. Certainly I have sinned more than once; I have transgressed far more than one time. Surely

Lent: Day 30

Psalm 102.1-2, 16-21; Numbers 21.4-9; Hebrews 10.19-31; John 8.21-30. Again, I must be brief this morning. I’ve got to get to work early. Both Number and John speak of being lifted up. In Numbers, it is the bronze serpent that is lifted up so that when the people were bitten by the poisonous snakes they