My wife and I were able to join the EMS 2026 Southeast Regional Conference, April 11, 2026. It was held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. Like last year (the only other one I have so far attended). it was really a lot of information jammed into too little time. Nevertheless, it …
Tag: holy defect
Brokenness
Check out @_SJPeace_’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/_SJPeace_/status/1073699742637547526?s=09 I hate doing videos so happy when someone else does it instead. The short video at the link above promotes the idea of "showing our scars" rather than trying to hide them. This ties to some of my work on wabi sabi and kintsukuroi.
Perfection as Holy Defect
I am working on an article right now that considers a different metaphor for understanding the goal of "perfection" as a Christian. So this post is a bit of a scratchpad where I put down my thoughts. Commonly, the term is linked with moral holiness and holiness often is connected to the metaphor from the …
Images of Holy Defect
Defects are not always bad. Defects, after all, simply are things that show variance from someone's idea of perfection. But perfection is not only unattainable... it is also unidentifiable. Plato's idealized forms don't really exist... here or anywhere else. But what do I mean by "Holy Defect." This doesn't mean "defective holiness." Rather, I am …