Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Moorings at Bergenshalvoyen Content warning – for sexual implications as told in a campfire story. Be careful what you ask for. Asking prayers bring the likelihood that God will turn the petition back on one’s own conscience. So, when asking for God to watch over the sick or the lonelyContinue reading “#67.13, Tuesday, April 29, 2025”
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#67.12, Thursday April 24, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Moorings at Bergenshalvoyen We are up the coast briskly, by the sail alone. At Bergenshalvoyen we take up the oars and follow the river along the peninsula to the rocky beach section of the harbor. My personal things, deerskins, and now my new shirt are folded next to the footContinue reading “#67.12, Thursday April 24, 2025”
#67.11, Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne We are leaving here this morning to sail on the fresh wind into the harbor of Bergenshalvoyen just north of us, our meeting place. The coxswain announces this is the place where these ships will join with others and in greater numbers we will set our sails anew. WeContinue reading “#67.11, Wednesday, April 23, 2025”
#67.10, Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne I have to say, having seen the politics of the Frankish bishops manipulating the church, in my life and life again, this worm of greed has also been working to devour the religion from the inside. Maybe Emil’s observation of Christianity is well founded. I’ve been away for a veryContinue reading “#67.10, Tuesday, April 22, 2025”
#67.9, Thursday April 17, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne My rowing mate shows me his collection of chism and he’s telling me a perception of Christianity I’ve been critical of from time to time, but in my own constant devotion to the simple Jesus love, I’ve never considered the collection of wealth as the very nature of Christianity.Continue reading “#67.9, Thursday April 17, 2025”
#67.8, Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne Emil shared with me his notions of Christian baptism. As he explains it, Christians have a strange and lovely greeting for their Norsemen visitors. It seems Christians have three gods and the churches are castles of great wealth. “When you arrive at the Christian castle they anoint you with oil,Continue reading “#67.8, Wednesday, April 16, 2025”
#67.7, Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne This fellow rower, Emil, first scoffing at Christians, is now revealing to me a collection of five chism, which are pure white linen squares used in the anointing of oil, symbol of releasing sin just prior to Christian baptism with water. As a Christian from another time, I happenContinue reading “#67.7, Tuesday, April 15, 2025”
#67.6, Thursday April 10, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne In a Christian world, when Christianity ruled people with authority even over imagination, any ship that could speed against the wind seeming to move faster than the rowers could dip and pull would be called a holy miracle. But in this new time and place, I call “future,” theseContinue reading “#67.6, Thursday April 10, 2025”
#67.5, Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne I am a man with no wealth no trunk or coin, or even a shirt to keep in the trunk that I don’t have. I make myself a rower’s seat — something like a milking stool — a driftwood plank propped with a single vertical cut of a log. Continue reading “#67.5, Wednesday, April 9, 2025”
#67.4, Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne Some of these ships are prepared for a journey. I imagine, with the calm winds and the complexities of navigating these inlets more men will surely be needed at the oars. My language doesn’t seem an impediment here. This harbor chatters in a cacophony of languages and I knowContinue reading “#67.4, Tuesday, April 8, 2025”
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