Who wants to talk about blindness? Not very many people and I can’t say that I blame anyone particularly. As someone who has worn glasses all my consci0us life blindness is a touch too close to my lived experience for me to be really happy talking about it. But, sometimes it comes up and talking […]
You don’t have to be blind
No one chooses to be blind. Well there was that one character in a middling-bad science fiction book who intentionally blinded himself to concentrate on science but a) he’s fictional; and, b) that’s dumb. But, does everyone choose to see? We are looking at the Gospel lesson for this Sunday, Mark 10:46-52, which is the […]
A priori for everyone!
The Lectionary texts for this week led me to deliver a sermon titled “Blind? Or just not seeing?” It seems almost beyond belief that anyone would choose to be physically blind but many of us choose willful blindness in what we think, believe, support or do. With these sermons I am trying to get us […]