Reflective Essays and Poetic Musings by Condemiang + Stories About the World

As we walk, we see countless ants and insects. Has the law of nature—or divine providence—configured time and space in such a way, even relying on coincidence, so that we might not step on them? *** Once again, we seek to ask Jesus for the way. In order to find answers to existential questions encountered in the journey of individual life, and to the various issues of the political, social, and economic realities in which we live, in order to discover clues for resolving the real challenges facing church communities and the ecological crises on both local and global scales, we turn again to Jesus in search of a way. This endeavor will be carried out by re-reading the records that transmit the memory of the historical Jesus’s life and thought. Therefore, our task will engage in discussions within the scholarly context of historical Jesus research—concerning its methodology, sources, achievements, and limitations. Our re-reading of Jesus is a critical undertaking. We aim to read the hist...

1. Let us part ways with things we will regret the moment we grasp them. But will we be able to gracefully manage the persistent turmoil that will continue to rise and fall countless times? Let us withdraw hatred. Hatred is an act of peering into my own consciousness. And when I peer in, those things will also gaze back at me.   2. Those old people are our past.  You, who walk ahead or behind me, side by side—are the present.  Those children are our future.  An old age awaits them in proportion to the wise care invested in them.  It is not enough that I alone am satisfied.  Money will not protect you. 3. A single ripple upon that river. For a moment, it carried the glow of the setting sun to my eyes—and then disappeared. Whose life might that have been? 4. It seems like a place that has neither the confidence, nor the ability, nor even the interest to maintain social order by relying on the autonomy and conscience of its members.