Christianity and the Art of Surfboard Shaping, part two
"Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith, Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe, Be there at our labors...."
Part one of this post may be found on The Wandering Coracle's main page.
Allow me to drift a bit in our meditation on Christian arete. As we are incapable of truly matching the mind of God without some human imperfection being included, arete is approached through clumsy fits and starts. That is true if motorcycles, guitars, or surfboards are the mediu…