Month: December 2009

Where are the Money-Grubbing Granolas?

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How can all we progressive, earth-friendly do-gooders ever expect anything we believe inHemp plant, credit: Hendrike to happen if none of us can learn how to leverage free market economies?  If all granolas are either anti-social, self-righteous and/or too touchy-feely (interpret flakey) to run a business, how the hell am I supposed to find a good pair of hemp cargo pants that fit me?

If I can’t find a good pair of hemp cargo pants that fit me, how am I supposed to rant to strangers on the bus about how evil cotton is?  If I can’t rant then how will I devise the next clever and rankling debate point to slay the slovenly, money-grubbing, truth-ignoring participants of our downward-spiraling global economy?

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the role of mystics in writing

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Henry Nouwen
Henry Nouwen

I doubt it is a coincidence that many of the best written contributions from the Christian tradition have been mystics.  Christian mystics have, after all, always advocated for the deep and innate need of man to know the heart of God.  And as Henri Nouwen (a recently deceased contemplative who impacted many, to say the least) so aptly put it, “To know the heart of God, is to know God.”

So what, you might add.  Well, even the broadest Christian tradition holds to the tenet that human kind was made in God’s image.  In my own round about thinking this would indicate that someone who knows the heart of God, or knows God, would understand humankind extremely well.  (An aside:  Even if you held that God was a construct of humans, knowing this construct would still inform you mightily about the nature and motivations of the humans that devised it.)

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