Tag: loving god

I’ve long been haunted by Nanci Griffith’s 1987 rendition of Julie Gold’s 1985 song, “From a Distance.” I listened to it again on a recent drive back from Seattle, so I decided to ponder the song’s lyrics and wrestle with its repeated assertion that “God is watching us from a distance.”

I do not love my neighbor. Instead, I give no feeling of well being or gladness towards him with only feelings of contempt and envy.

Leading up to my turning 50, I reread the farewell discourse of Jesus found in John 13-17. As read it, I thought of many of new (gnu) atheists and my trouble with them.

The townspeople came to joke that they could set their clocks by the professor’s afternoon walk. Immanuel Kant was so regular...