Recent Blog Posts
"Separation of Church and State-- But what if the church is wrong? "
Jasmine Wilson on 07/01
"Un-pressing the Snooze Button"
Hannah Notess on 07/01
"Is Spaceflight a Religion?"
Larry Gilman on 07/01- "Reflections on a sermon"
Jasmine Wilson on 06/27 
"Markets Leave Their Mark (Part I)"
Chase Nordengren on 06/25
""I Write Because I Cannot Remember At All.""
Ashley Diaz Mejias on 06/24
"Cake and Eat It"
Jennifer Grosser on 06/23- "The Thing About Stories"
Jennifer Grosser on 06/22 - "The Knowledge of God and Evil"
Jennifer Grosser on 06/21 
"love and betrayal: thinking about Kichijiro"
Robert Geroux on 06/19
"I Write Because I Cannot Remember At All."
jasmine says ::
Wow... I am awestruck by this remarkable post. I love the way you weaved your various stories in with the truth you found through literature... as if the words themselves find breath in your life, as they were intended to. I agree... your writing is . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
jennw2ns says ::
I agree that that's what it sounds like I'm saying. I don't think that's what I really believe in full. I DO believe that God's glory is creation's glory, and also that God delights to do good to us and that we are more important to Him than we . . .READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
jstanley says ::
Hi Gilman, I just don't know how productive it is to make apologetic cases for God's benevolence or malevolence based on one's broad assessment of the relative amount of goodness or evil in the world. Further, to even raise the question of why . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
jstanley says ::
Hi Jenn, Would it be fair to summarize your article as saying something like "the story is about God (and God's glorification) not creation (and creation's glorification)? If so, I want to resist it. It sounds so 'orthodox' on one level, but . . .READ MORE >
"I Write Because I Cannot Remember At All."
thedude says ::
Ashley, this is beautiful... as someone who is white it was a gift to hear about the Cuban, and Cuban-American experience of having "a soul long stained by dislocation and silence." Such homesickness indeed may embody, as you say of your father, a . . .READ MORE >
Cake and Eat It
jennw2ns says ::
I'm glad it resonated. I wasn't sure any of the last three posts actually made any sense, particularly this one. Actually, I feel that way most of the time I write here . . . ;-)READ MORE >
Cake and Eat It
davegrosser says ::
OK, Jenn, *that* was great. So simple, so obvious, so never-said. Thank you. I found that very helpful.READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
jennw2ns says ::
Ahh--thank you, Gilman, for saying in so many fewer words what it was going to take me at least five more posts to kind-of say! ;-) Yes. You are right. I think that's kind of what I was saying indirectly in my next (story) post: we assume we're the . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
gilman says ::
Thoughts: God as author -- a complex metaphor with many ways to turn. Not all authors appear explicitly in their stories, though every author is present as the "voice" of the story. Dickens, for example, is intensely present in all his storie . . .READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
gilman says ::
Very thought-provoking piece. Good work. If we entertain the possibility that God is a cosmic sadist, an “evil being who makes some other beings as toys and dreams up ways to torment them,” then we will at once be stuck trying to explain the vexi . . .READ MORE >
Tangled Alphabets: An Aesthetic of Language
bibledude says ::
Great review Jen! The images and how you described them really touched my heart and mind today. Very inspiring... thank you.READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
gilman says ::
I think this is an exciting subject. All Christianities, including (notably) American ones, have tended to merge Caesar and God, state and faith, into a giant idol with a glowing head, to steal Bob Dylan's great phrase, with an American flag standi . . .READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
gilman says ::
I think this is an exciting subject. All Christianities, including (notably) American ones, have tended to merge Caesar and God, state and faith, into a giant idol with a glowing head, to steal Bob Dylan's great phrase, with an American flag standi . . .READ MORE >
The Lie Factory
Becque says ::
It is so hard to be part of this world when you know that some (much?) of what we do helps to drive a knife into the heart of what gives us life and sustains us. In my heart I know that God wants me to love the sinner/marketer/advertiser/capitalist, . . .READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
jstanley says ::
Jasmine, I appreciate your thoughts and the invitation into your process. I would be very curious to hear your thoughts on a previous TOJ article entitled "Anarchist Imperitives and Fundamental Change" by Michael Van Dyke. It would be good fodder f . . .READ MORE >