Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I have the great blessing right now of being on vacation in the Lovely Comox Valley, on Stunning Vancouver Island in Beautiful British Columbia. While I'll be doing a bit of writing on my vacation, I will be out of my normal posting routine for a … Continue reading Vacation!
It’s been a while since I’ve explored a practice relating to Scripture reading here. As it happens, I’ve also been working on a series of posts on hermeneutics (the interpretation of texts), and so I’ve been thinking a lot about how we approach and interpret our Scriptures. And so this week for my sacred practice … Continue reading Eisegesis & Exegesis
The first post in this series introduced four characteristics I think are vital for a hermeneutical approach 'after postmodernism': It must be growth-oriented, holistic, integrating, and inclusive of complexity. This post will focus on the first of these characteristics. I’ve written a lot already in this space about growth and why I think it’s important … Continue reading Toward an Integral Hermeneutic: Growth-Oriented
The written word is nothing short of a miracle, transforming patterns of marks on a surface into meaningful communication, across space and time. It should be no surprise, thinking of the miracle that writing actually represents, that understanding the written word is often challenging. Even more than understanding face-to-face oral/aural communication, it is really nothing … Continue reading The Written Word (Toward an Integral Hermeneutic: Introduction)
I’ve always been a collector. As a child, I collected anything from leaves (that was for a Cubs badge) and sugar packets (to alleviate boredom on long Summer road trips) to baseball cards and pennants. As an adult, this tendency manifests itself less in physical objects (though I do surround myself with my favorite books … Continue reading Florilegium
Matthew Root 