Stealing from the title of Dickens' book A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Watershed's story could be equally called A Tale of Two Wisdoms: God's Wisdom and Human Wisdom (1991-2015). I tell this story not in order to disparage the intellect or learning from a human point of view but rather to show how we might have used these two wisdoms incorrectly. Why and how wisdom gets expressed in our lives is what I have in mind.
What does this to do with Swedish author Henning Mankell or his crime mystery Faceless Killers? This is a book response, not a parental rant against the strange world of technology. Kurt Wallander, Mankell's frumpy, grumpy Swedish crime investigator and I have something in common. We are both in danger of becoming culturally irrelevant, maybe extinct; both of us fear this looming prospect.
I find myself caught between seeing the Return of Christ as symbolic and seeing it as a literal historical occurrence. The ideas of time and history are so difficult to get our heads around. Time seems a human construct based on our awareness of mortality. Aging and progress seems like byproducts. I feel like our fear of the end of the world is analogous to the end of our personal lives. Lately there have been other ways to understand time in history -- that all that exists continues to exist and merely changes form. So when our bodies die we