Captian's Log Poem: Meditation on the Soul 25 Mar 2022 Oh the bent and twisted thing a soul becomesthat is not filled by heaven's lightnor sacred darkness seeks.It wraps itself about itself—consumes itself—it leaves itself—perverts itself—and ends without itself.O weak…
Captian's Log Confessions of an Outraged Heart 24 Mar 2022 (Note: If you read only the first part, you will do me a disservice. Either set yourself to read the whole of what I have to say or do not…
Captian's Log Signs 1 Mar 2022 The old and ruined church, with peeling bell and calling knell, waits beside the graveyard. The dead do not listen. They say it is no more than wind which activates…
Captian's Log Signs 28 Feb 2022 There is a tombstone. Engraved in the stone are words I cannot read. On the carved cross a corvid sits. The grave is empty below. The corvid sits upon the…
Captian's Log Signs 27 Feb 2022 Wild, the wind was blowing, and dark the sky it grew; Wild, the wind was racing, and dark the signs above. Strange, abhorrent things were born beneath weird, flashing lights.…
Captian's Log Willing to See 19 Jan 2022 So, as a Christian conversant with atheists, I have more than once asked something along the lines of “What would convince you that there is a God?” The responses…
Captian's Log 2021: Merry Christmas 25 Dec 202121 Dec 2021 Merry Christmas! God chose to be. He is, in a sense, existence, but he also existed, he was and is and is to come. But here is Christmas when our…
Captian's Log 2021: Thanksgiving 25 Nov 202124 Nov 2021 Happy Thanksgiving Y'all, With thankful hearts we gather hereand celebrate with wine and beerthe story of the pilgrims past—told year to year so it will last—the bounty of our present…
Captian's Log Ravings: Going Mad 30 Mar 2021 Whatever comes, it comes, whatever goes, it goes, but whatever stays, it will not stay forever. The impermanence of all loves, of all hates, of all desires, flowing like a…
Captian's Log Word Study on תָּאִיר פָּנָיו 17 Mar 2021 (I may or may not have stayed up all night working on this paper. I may or may not have gone mad. I undoubtedly have missed something important.) Question The…
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