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Dreaming of Neverland: Faith and Extinction

Christopher Tanner

Mar 24, 2015
9 min

Dreaming of Neverland: Faith and Extinction

This essay is my response to a song from Peter Pan. Here’s a video Many historians and observers of the human condition have likened the “stages of life” of civilizations and empires to those of individual human beings. They have spoken of the birth, infancy, adolescence, maturity and senescence and, of course, death of countries and cultures. This is, needless to say, a poetic use of language; but poetry often serves as a vehicle for truths that cannot be conveyed nearly so

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Lucifer Dismantled: The Final Fall

Christopher Tanner

Feb 4, 2015
5 min

Lucifer Dismantled: The Final Fall

The mere mention of Lucifer often strikes dread in the hearts of believers while arousing the scent of searing sulfur and eternal punishment. “He” is seemingly forever synonymous with Satan; although the two terms are not entirely equivalent to each other. Etymology is necessary to unravel the historicity of how the word “Lucifer” became adopted by early Christians. Lucifer is derived from the Latin phrase “lucem ferre,” which means “bearer of light.” The 4th century Vulgate

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If God Falls Like a Tree In the Forest and No One Hears, Does God Exist?

Christopher Tanner

Jan 28, 2015
6 min

If God Falls Like a Tree In the Forest and No One Hears, Does God Exist?

At the beginning of every semester, I tell my students: there is a world of difference between hearing music and listening to it. Emphatically despite the fact that “hear” and “listen” are often used interchangeably in casual speech, as though they were exact synonyms. In fact, they mean two completely different – although not entirely unrelated – things. I’ve spent a goodly portion of my life thinking about language and trying to understand its expressive range, the better

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