Author Archives: Lydia
The Center of Ethics
Before I continue in this series of ethics I’d like to pause and revisit the cornerstone on which all Christian ethics stand. I cannot add to these wonderful words from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, so I will let them speak for themselves: The origin and the essence of all Christian life are comprised in the one process […]
Sex, Lies and Design
Sex is important. But not at all in the way popular culture portrays it. Because sex isn’t ultimately about us. Sex isn’t just about love (and certainly not how society defines it) procreation or personal pleasure, though those are wonderful elements of it, they are not the purpose of sex, they are not what make […]
The Controversy of Design
My deadline to begin this series has arrived. I originally began hoping to address feminism and abortion, and as I have delved into these topics I have found that they fit into a much larger philosophy that I hope to address as well. My goal is to post bi-weekly addressing the following topics: Sexuality Marriage […]
No Greater Hope
Often others say, far more eloquently than I, exactly what I feel. As I have continued with fairly disheartening research and felt the great weight of a world stumbling in the dark, God’s words through Jeremiah provided the lightness my heart needed this morning… Lamentations 3:21-24 But this I call to mind, and therefore I […]
What is to Come
This summer has been a whirlwind, and the list of things I wanted to accomplish has collected dust unfinished. But it has been beautiful and full of life to the extent that I can hardly catch my breath. I am overwhelmed by the grace of God and simultaneously burdened by the world around me. In […]
Oceans Never Fill 