by Mark Hamilton | Jan 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Some days you don’t have much to say because you recognize the extent to which you need mercy. Silence seems better than speaking. Words fail to capture the subtleties of thought, the depths of emotions, the intricacies of interpersonal relationships. Since...
by Mark Hamilton | Jan 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week I spent three days in New York City on business. A few hours of touring amid the work took me and a colleague to Grant’s Tomb and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, each a monument in its own way. One honors a great man and the other seeks to...
by Mark Hamilton | Jan 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
One of the major images of God in Scripture is that of judge. Yahweh is the God who evaluates and settles accounts, rectifying all the injustices of the world and bringing order where, before, chaos reigned. As I’ve noted before, it’s a hard image for...
by Mark Hamilton | Dec 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the greatest truths about human existence is that it is painful. Not always, not to the same degree for all, not always pointlessly. But to live is to experience pain. Despite our culture’s almost pathological fear of pain and the extraordinary lengths...
by Mark Hamilton | Dec 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Psalm 24 is one of the best known in the Psalter, thanks in part to Handel’s Messiah, which gives us a beautiful choral arrangement of the last few verses. But the majesty of that oratorio can mask an important piece of the psalm, namely, its inquisitive nature...