I’ve uploaded an update to the collection of my weblog writings: Acts of Being: Selected Weblog Writings From 2006 to 2011. Here is the text from the Preface for this new edition:
I’ve added about 70 chapters to this Second Edition. Nearly all of those chapters are reformatted essays from my writings during 2011 which were published on my active weblog, Acts of Being. I’ve also added a couple of older writings because of references in the essays from 2011.
In 2011, I turned more strongly to making sense of being so far as it’s used by God in telling His story which is this universe seen in light of the Almighty’s purposes. Specifically, I turned towards the issues of relationships and of the formation of the Body of Christ in this mortal realm, a formation not to be completed or perfected on this side of the grave. It should probably be noted that I considered the corruption of the modern political and economic systems, trying to determine what they tell us about the world and the mortal Body of Christ. Roughly speaking, I decided that these systems have been taken over by gangster conspiracies which play roles in human moral and community life roughly comparable to the roles of parasites and infectious agents and cancers in the biological world.
I hope your thinking is stimulated by what you find in this book.
I’ll be doing some work before the next update to make the text prettier and also to enhance the simple charts I’ve started using for displays of my understanding of the relationships between different forms of being, abstract to concrete, and similar matters. I hope to expand my use of visual tools as I’ve found that even my relatively non-visual self finds them useful.