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Weekend Compilations (9)
Welcome to this week’s installment of Weekend Compilations, a blog post where I share links to my favorite blog posts from the previous week. Sunday: Preston Yancey talks about not being a product. He writes, “If we want to play the numbers game, I’m doing well. There’s a faithful good many of you who read… Continue reading
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The Blessing of God: a meditation
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. (Matt 5:3; 6) I’m sure he meant well. St. Matthew with his revisionism—a commentary on the more straightforward statements made by St. Luke. Blessed are you who are… Continue reading
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Nearest Nameless
Nearest Nameless So damn familiar Most of the time, I don’t even know you are here. My life, My portion of eternity, A little shiver, As if the chill of the grave Is already catching up with me— No matter. Descartes smelled Witches burning While he sat thinking Of a truth so obvious We keep… Continue reading
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Going to Church with Marx
Below is a reflection I wrote at the beginning of my Literary Theory and Faith class last semester. We had read Breakfast with Socrates and were assigned to do a miniature version of the book in which we reflected on the way Theory pervaded our everyday lives. When I wake up in the mornings, I do so in… Continue reading
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Calvinism Makes me Cry
“If Calvinism is true, it means that God creates disposable people, people without any hope. It means that God not only allows, but sovereignly ordains, every war and every abortion and every rape of a child. It means that God does not love the world; he hates it. If Calvinism is true, it means that… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: Family and Friends
My Christmas break is almost over and soon I will return to the classroom and to work. But first, a word of thankfulness. Here are some moments I am thankful for from Christmas break: When I got to announce the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Drew Dixon to the waiting crowd at the reception. When… Continue reading
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Weekend Compilations (8)
Welcome to this week’s installment of Weekend Compilations, a blog post where I share links to my favorite blog posts from the previous week. Sunday: Sarah Bessey talks about being fearless. She writes, “I used to think that conquering my Fears will be a lot more sexy than it really is. I thought I would… Continue reading
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Walking with Bare Feet: a meditation
Amanda and I took a field trip to Austin a few days ago on our journey from Sugar Land back to Abilene. We’ve been talking about Austin a lot lately. About moving there once I finish my master’s. We parked our car at 6th and Lamar and then walked down to Congress. We were looking… Continue reading
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Sunday Mass at St. Teresa’s (poetry Friday)
I’ve been playing with this poem for a few years. I initially wrote it for a poetry workshop class I took. I see a man wandering the parking lot. My eyes follow him to his car where the dent in the side and the empty beer cans on his dashboard tell a sobering story. Hearing… Continue reading
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Defining Rhetoric (from the classroom)
Rhetoric is not an object. Of that I am certain. Rhetoric is not a substance to be examined and dissected or to be broken up into its requisite parts. Rhetoric is human meaning-making, and the study of rhetoric is the study of the way humans make meaning. This definition requires some nuance. First, I have… Continue reading
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Silence (quote of the week)
“Has the universe gone dark and silent on us? Pascal had that idea. He said, “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrified me.” Why should it? Silence is frightening if it comes where there ought to be noise—silence in the nursery, in the dining hall, in the woods when the birds ought to be… Continue reading
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year! This past year has been a full one for me: I graduated from college. I survived my first semester of graduate school. I got engaged to Amanda. I was Drew’s best man (he is the first of my group of friends to get married, though a bunch of us aren’t that far… Continue reading
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The Eschatology of Les Miserables
For the first time in my life I didn’t spend Christmas with my parents and my siblings. Instead, I stayed in Abilene with Amanda (who had to work) and her parents. On Christmas Day, we went to see the greatest musical of all time: Les Miserables (And, I might add, this film was absolutely wonderful!… Continue reading
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O Holy Night: a meditation
Who spoke those burdensome words: obligation, duty, responsibility? Who would mire us in niceness and surface happiness while Love—raw and bleeding and born in the dark shit-hole of human suffering—holds out his torn hands welcoming all who are weary? For the Law is Love. And in his name all oppression shall cease. Self-imposed oppression no… Continue reading
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Why the Incarnation Matters: answering a #progGOD challenge
Last week I said that I would be exploring the aesthetic of the Christ event in the coming weeks. And, so, that is what I am starting today: why is the story of Jesus compelling? Also last week, I made the claim that the God imagined by St. Thomas (and others) would, should she exist,… Continue reading
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Weekend Compilations: my favorite blogs from this past week (7)
It has been three weeks since I have had a regular blogging schedule, but with my term papers finally completed, I am going back to normal this week. So, on that note, welcome to this week’s installment of Weekend Compilations, a blog post where I share links to my favorite blog posts from the previous… Continue reading
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God?
Last night Amanda and I went to Highland’s “Here With Us” at the Paramount. It was beautiful. And, because it was beautiful, I felt my heart drawn to those same questions again—the one’s that cause art. Because art is produced in the struggle between what is and what should be. It is formed in the… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: God in the Midst of Life
The last couple of weeks have been a bit crazy for me. Between Thanksgiving and school, I have neglected the blog. But, in the midst of the craziness, life still goes on. Life still beats, pounding out the rhythm of meaning. I suppose yesterday is a perfect example: I woke up early, made coffee, and… Continue reading
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Remember
Remember (for Amanda) do you remember the bleakness the shadows and the cold and the dead hearth covered in the soot of forgotten fires? do you remember life before joy you were unspoken poetry Grace unknown, Love a mystery and Beauty a truth hidden by lies? do you remember that cold night carbonara, the lake,… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday (I know it’s actually Wednesday): christmas music out of season
Today as I listened Shane and Shane on shuffle at work, “O Come O Come Emmanuel” came on. And while I normally don’t listen to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving, I let it slide today. And, so, right now I want to do nothing less than blast Christmas music, pour a cup of coffee, and… Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 