In March, I visited Gbadolite and six of the seven regions of the Wasolo Pool. I went to listen – to be present to those far from the center of the CEUM. I knew the division within the CEUM …
Author: cwickstrom
Toward Heuristic Conversation
Heuristic power is the capacity of a person or an idea or a text or an object to point us to possibilities and inspire us to discovery and conversation and relationship.
Four Articles
Recently a friend posted links to …
Christmas 2020: Sleeping through the Storm
Biblical Insight
In Matthew 8:26, we read, “And he said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?’ Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.”
The Curious Relationship between Comprehension and Comprehensive Entities
Comprehension is defined as the action or capability of understanding something. To comprehend, in other words, is to understand. Likewise, it seems clear that the words “comprehension” and “comprehensive” have a common origin. Therefore, it seems logical to assume …
Facts and the Heuristic Promise of Clues
“COVID-19: The importance of science in an era of distrust and disinformation” read the headline of a press release by the American Medical Association. “In a virtual address hosted by the National Press Club on April 7, 2020, AMA …
Contemplation
In a March 2020 First Things article, Michael Hanby writes that “Modernity is the radical and wholesale transformation of the world’s relation to the divine.” With God reduced from “first principle” to “a hypothesis,” the door was open for …
Easter 2020; Hope for Justice from Quarantine
For the past two years, I have been working my way through several books that are deeply insightful and that I find myself reading with a full set of colored highlighters and/or pens that I use to create an …