Me & This Blog
I’m a strange creature, a bit of fish, fowl, and other fauna. This blog emphasizes that. My spiritual home rests firmly in the African Diaspora, but I spend a good deal of time with heathen (Germanic-Norse) folks. In turn, my spiritual practice has been honed by meditative work modeled loosely after Buddhist work detailing the pitfalls along the way toward wisdom.
Intellectually, I’ve been nursed on liberal doses of Western philosophy, from Anaximander to Derrida, mostly from a Continental perspective. That said, I have a deep fondness for American philosophy, ranging from the traditional, like Emerson, to the quite contemporary and academic, like Robert Brandom and Peter Galison (who, admittedly, is more of a philosophically-minded historian of science).
Emerging out of my engagement with the historical depth of religious movements and my devotion to the lineages (of spirit and blood) that have made my spiritual and material life possible, I continue to read and contemplate the Bible and the monotheistic traditions in dialogue with it.
I believe traditions, contemplated and interpreted in light of the present, provide the foundations for the future. I do not believe in dogmatizing them, reducing the present to a simple repetition of relationships and modes of relating that existed in the past.
As the world becomes increasingly cosmopolitan, with diverse spiritual communities side-by-side with each other not just in geography, but in the capacity to represent each other in media (film, literature, and otherwise), a deeper ecumenical understanding seems necessary.
It is toward that deeper understanding and the effort to manifest it in my life that this blog is directed.
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Wow, very cool objective. I just read a post I got on from another blog’s link, You got a new reader o/
Thanks–I’m glad to have you checking in.