The Layman
C. Wayne BratcherA paradoxical faith in an eroding world
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Brief ruminations: Inadequate words and knowing the unknowable
So I read a book last year called The Prophets by a 20th century Jewish scholar named Abraham Joshua Heschel. One of the things he spent a lot of time on that I’ve been thinking about since is the otherness, or transcendence, of God in the...
What is diversity?
Hey! It’s been a while since my last post. I mentioned last year that my wife and I were about to move to what is hopefully our permanent home. Well, we did, and that’s one of the reasons I’ve gone quiet here. We’ve been planning and starti...
Book review: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door. He took off his hat and came slowly forward. The floorboards creaked under his boots. I...
The futility of forestry and an ode to the hillcountry
I spent all day yesterday crawling through a privet- and tick-infested hellhole in the rapidly urbanizing inner central basin of Tennessee. Once known for cedar glades, limestone sinkholes, small farms, and the flattest ground in Tennessee,...
"Free to die and free in death"
This concludes an informal trilogy on what it means to live and what it means to be free, and how preposterous the truth is.1 There are brighter subjects ahead, for one can only meditate on death for so long. Surely it’s far from the last t...
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Forester in the US southeast by trade. Bible nerd by nature. Disciple of Jesus by grace.
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