Mark Buchanan
Mark Buchanan
Mark Buchananis an American physicist and author. He was formerly an editor with the international journal of science Nature, and the popular science magazine New Scientist. He has been a guest columnist for the New York Times, and currently writes a monthly column for the journal Nature Physics...
children enemy god-love
This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
caring care stop-caring
Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.
risk
Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
men busy mindset
Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
Courage encourages courage.
wickedness world forget
All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.
laughter thinking vanity
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.
giants ethical midget
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
lying doubt answers
Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.
unique rocks fleeing
Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.
soul sickness
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
taken expression doubt
Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.
disappointment reflection thinking
The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?
needs alive sabbath
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.