Humanity
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Religions Are Us
Philosophy | Religions Are Us
Religions Are Us © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Sometimes, my creative-process begins as a multi-part tweet on Twitter. Tweets under the hash-tag #FirstCupOfCoffee, contain stuff that comes to me during morning meditation. My first cup is for “the universe,” which is the closest thing to saying “morning prayer”
Evolution
Theology | What If?
What If? © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com March 1, 2021 What if God purposely developed humans by evolution; giving us our physical drives to protect self, to reproduce, to form societies — blending us, hybridizing us from the many strains of ancestors — evolving us a little more, until the
Agnosticism
Theology | God-struggles, a Compendium
God-struggles, a Compendium ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Just now — no sooner than I had thought-up this title, “God-struggles,” an image of Jacob in the Bible, wrestling with God came to mind. He wrestled all night-long, never giving up, not winning but not losing either. For his persistence,
Agnosticism
Theology | An Argument with God
An Argument with God © 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Dear God, If You are there, I’ll just call You, ” God,” because I don’t want to adopt potentially man-made labels for You. Also, If you don’t mind, until I am inspired otherwise, I will not address
Agnosticism
Poetry | Catalyst
Catalyst © 2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com This morning before the sky lost black I stood beneath a half-pie moon With Orion and the dog star at my back And could not but pray thanks, to the Unknown God Who set this heavenly array on high — But then I relented,
Agnosticism
Philosophy | Laptop or TV? 2
Laptop or TV ? 2 ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com. WritersClass.net Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Our smart TV has myriad programs running—while it’s on. There are beautiful, dancing images on its face and music coming from its speakers. If I unplug it—it’s dead. Black.
Agnosticism
Philosophy | Laptop or TV?
Laptop or TV? ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com. WritersClass.net Our smart TV has myriad programs running—while it’s on. There are beautiful, dancing images on its face and music coming from its speakers. If I unplug it—it’s dead. Black. The programs are gone. Nothing
Agnosticism
Theology | A Parable
A Parable ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net One fine Earth-day, God grew tired of seeing and hearing God’s name carelessly thrown about by human beings. Humans had written and spoken so many conflicting things about God since the solitary, single time God had communicated with
Barter-Economy
SciFi | Sky Enigma
Sky Enigma ©2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com A lot of us don’t appreciate, or have completely forgotten, how our world became what it is today. It began at the Winter Solstice in 2033. Someone must have noticed it around midnight GMT. That was when mobile phones started buzzing
Agnosticism
Poetry | Genesis
Genesis ©2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com In the beginning, God made essence; He held it between His forefinger and thumb, A tiny singularity. He gave it cyclical movement, frequency, Then sent it hurtling outward from the point of creation Giving it linear movement, progress. And God observed and noted
Philosophy
Poetry | The Poet's Forge
The Poet’s Forge ©2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com When I think of a forge, I first think of old, bronze Vulcan, at the top of his tower, hammer raised, on a hill overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, my place of nativity. Having first seen him when I was five years
Humanity
Commentary | A Memo from God
An Open Letter from God This is a copy of text read by Paul Harvey on a radio broadcast clear back in 1998. This says it all. When I read it I was shocked that it mirrored a lot of my writings on this blog and on my Twitter feed
Answered Prayer
The Infinite We
A Hypothesis of Universal Interconnection © 2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Living in a black box, as we do, that which happens before birth and after death is a mystery — to most of us. Other than musty religious texts and orally communicated myths, we haven’t a clue. I’m
Cosmology
Poetry | Constrained
Constrained ©2018 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Constrained as we are, Between the blackness of the womb and that of death, Between the poles of this spinning ball of rock-and-brine, ‘Tween space’s vacuum and the crush of ocean depths, Between the infinite and the infinitesimal, Between Now and Later–
Creationism
Poetry | Can a Crocus Bloom ...
Can a Crocus Bloom … © 2018 Vernon Miles Kerr Can a crocus bloom in desert’s searing sand; Or Altruism spring from our primate-surly band? Could Love, that agape of old, that outward-flowing care For others, arise from merely wishing it so? Or was it a gift, bestowed by the loving