Faith
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My Faith and my Doubt: an Attempted Description
My mind has been circling the big questions again. As usual. And, as usual, I don’t know anything for certain. I don’t have much to say today that I haven’t said before, but perhaps re-framing it will help remind me of my choice. * * * I believe in the God of the philosophers. I Continue reading
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Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, and the Bible: reading scripture as mythology part 7
Welcome to the seventh, and final, post I am doing for the mythology and the bible series. You can view the other posts here. Last week I recapped where we had been, discussed the myths of the Beginning and the End held by a segment of contemporary Christians, and told you that this week I Continue reading
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Repentance: a Lenten reflection
It’s still Lent. And I’m starting to get tired of it. I’ve mourned the loss of God. I’ve accused God. I’ve felt solidarity with the suffering of others. I’ve wanted to stop believing. I’ve served others. I’ve created art and worshipped. I’ve been buoyed by Lauds and Compline. But that’s not why I’m getting tired Continue reading
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Do You Believe in God?
However, from a Christological perspective, the question itself, which everyone seems to take for granted, now comes to signify something else entirely. Instead of the words, Do you believe in God? Meaning Do you believe there is empirical data to assent to the existence of an extra-linguistic Supreme Being governing the universe?, it now refers Continue reading
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Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, and the Bible: reading scripture as mythology part 4
Welcome to the fourth post in a series I am doing about mythology and the bible. You can find the earlier posts here. I feel it necessary to mention, again, that I am not attempting to read the stories of the bible in their theological, historical, scientific, or literary contexts. I am interested in the Continue reading
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Sometimes I wish I didn’t have faith: a Lenten reflection
Sometimes I wish I didn’t have faith. I wish I could pick up, walk away, and live in this world like a normal person. * * * I was talking to a good friend the other day—the kind of friend who just gets me. We’ve known each other for years. She was talking about faith. Continue reading
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Believest Thou This?: a meditation
His sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. These were his brother-sister-soul of his soul-friends.The kind of friends who’ve held his beating heart while he poured out tears of frustration and anger. If a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. And Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 