by Benjamin Robinson | Jan 16, 2015 | Spirituality
Ruling your realm is a concept that I’ve thought long and hard about. Each of us has a realm, and the great task of our lives is to rule it and rule it well. Your realm has two components: space and time. Abraham Heschel, in The Sabbath, put his finger on the great...
by Benjamin Robinson | Jan 9, 2015 | Spirituality
Immanuel Kant demonstrated, in his Critique of Pure Reason, that time is a function of the mind . . . it does not exist in the material world, but is a grid that our minds lay over the material world in order to make it more livable. But whatever lives in the mind can...
by Benjamin Robinson | Oct 15, 2014 | Devotions
The New Testament speaks of those who walk in the light and those who walk in darkness. But the NT knows nothing of the class of Christians that fill our churches today: those who walk in the grey. The grey is that opaque area between light and darkness, between...
by Benjamin Robinson | Sep 26, 2014 | Devotions
I’m sitting at a stop light on Lake Shore Blvd. The year is 1998, and I have two friends in the car. I’m driving a 1989 Chevy Cavelier. That car was jacked up, but it got me from point A to point B. I looked in my rearview mirror and saw a car coming up...
by Benjamin Robinson | Sep 22, 2014 | Current Events, Spirituality
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the rate at which pastors are committing suicide in the US is the most alarming trend in Western Christianity. Just google the words “pastor” and “suicide” and you’ll find no less than eight...
by Benjamin Robinson | Jul 15, 2014 | Spirituality
People often ask me how it is that I have memorized so much Scripture. When I tell them that I never try to memorize Scripture, they tend to conclude that I have some sort of a photographic memory. I wish this were the case, but it is far from the truth. I would argue...
