Caraganas grow wild
Caraganas grow wild along this river.A transverse tangle of stocks and stems,their yellow flowers, somewhere within,ache for bees. Through this forest of crosse...
Category: Atonement
Framing Hiroshima within Easter
I am at the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, it is Passion week, Easter has closed in. I am in front of an exhibit. Behind glass upon a circular stand is wha...
Vanquishing violence, growing mercy—Steven Pinker and Rene Girard
Last Saturday I had this article published in the Edmonton Journal’s Religion page. My friend Peter wrote to say, “I read your article in today’s jo...
Easter is about a wrath-free God
May you have a blessed and bloom filled Easter! Just realized it’s been exactly three years (and 500 plus posts) since Grow Mercy hit the blogosphere with...