An Occasional Digest
In my last post about mythology, I said that myth isn’t metaphor. Metaphor is a popular way to look at myth these days, which is why it deserves some pushback. I maintain that myths are not allegories of the human psyche. Of course, any lens can be …
Asking Jesus into your heart is a dead horse of a phrase that’s been beaten by, I don’t know how many clichés. It’s one of the dearest and perhaps most important ideas to have cemented itself into the vocabulary of evangelical Christianese. …
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One of the ideas I’ve always liked best about the story of Jesus’s resurrection is that he didn’t just die and then rise again after three arbitrary days. Rather, it’s that on an ontological level, Jesus had life itself within him. He …