by Kurt Knecht | Sep 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
“I got finished early, but I’m still going to swim. I don’t think I can swim on an empty stomach though. If I swing by, will you bring a banana out to me?” “Well, of course,” I replied. “I’ll have to put some pants on...
by Kurt Knecht | Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
“The right side of history” is an odd phrase to me. It’s been cropping up on my feeds lately, and it always makes me quizzical. I try to imagine what it will be like one hundred years after I’m dead, and how I might feel about some distant...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
I haven’t really read Berdyaev since my 20s. I think that David Bently Hart says somewhere that your 20s is the correct age to stop reading him, however, I heard Kalistos Ware mention him in a lecture, and it brought back some fond memories. I’ve found a...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Good poem. Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 5...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
At first, it seems odd that in the middle of such abundance that Jesus tells us not to let anything perish. It is typically right in the middle of plentitude that we are less concerned with a little squandering here or there. When money is abundant, we don’t...
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