Tag Archives: God

Of Faith (May Contain Some Feet)

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Bruce Pegg

Many of my runs take me along a mile-and-a-half stretch of Culver Road in Irondequoit, NY. About a half mile from home, they go past Transfiguration Lutheran Church then, almost another mile north, the Durand United Church of Christ and, on … Continue reading →

Posted in Grains of Sand | Tagged Christianity, faith, God, Mother Theresa | 2 Comments

You Are My Beloved. In You, I Am Well Pleased.

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Bruce Pegg

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became … Continue reading →

Posted in Grains of Sand, Sermons | Tagged Christianity, Glenn Williams, God, Kamakura, Kencho-ji, Matthew 17:1-9, Moses, Mount Ararat, Mount Horeb, Mount Sinai, Mountain symbolism, Noah's Ark, Sermon on the Mount, Transfiguration | 3 Comments

A Brief Biography of God: Epilogue – Coma Dreams

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Bruce Pegg

In 2011, a group of researchers from the Universities of Liège, Wisconsin and Milan published the results of a study that set out to determine whether coma patients were able to dream. They concluded that not only could patients in … Continue reading →

Posted in A Brief Biography of God, Grains of Sand | Tagged anthropology, fundamentalism, God, metaphysics, modernity, religion, ritual, spirituality, Teachings of Jesus, The Divine | 2 Comments

A Brief Biography of God Part Four: Life Support

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

After hanging around the planet for millennia, messing with humans only to have them mess right back, our favorite Supreme Being took just a couple of hundred years to go from from comfortable middle age to life support.

Posted in A Brief Biography of God, Grains of Sand | Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, fundamentalism, God, John Fowles, Mary Anning, metaphysics, Neil deGrasse Tyson, religion, The Bible, Ussher's Chronology, William Herschel | 1 Comment

A Brief Biography of God Part Three: The Midlife Crisis

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Somewhere around 9,000 years ago, give or take a few thousand years, humans began to abandon their hunter-gatherer cultures. They started to domesticate livestock and cultivate crops, which meant that they could stop wandering the land and start to build … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God Part Two: The Awkward Teenage Years

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

So God’s biography begins with humans attempting to provide a very basic and primitive explanation of creation. Some ancient societies imagined multiple gods and goddesses responsible for different natural phenomena—the sun, water, the seasons, nature’s bounty were all personified by human-like … Continue reading →

Posted in A Brief Biography of God, Grains of Sand | Tagged anthropology, Christianity, dawn of civilization, fundamentalism, God, metaphysics, myth, priestly class, religion, ritual, sacrifice, Sir James George Frazer, storytelling, sympathetic magic, The Bible, The Golden Bough | Leave a comment

A Brief Biography of God Part One: The Early Years

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

The image of God, or of a supernatural being or beings somehow controlling the universe, must have entered the human brain very early in our history on this planet. Creationists and evolutionists and everyone in between, I think, can agree … Continue reading →

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