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Fair Linen is the name of the long white cloth that covers the top of an altar. It’s traditionally made of the highest quality linen available (and affordable) at the time of its purchase, and it’s not hard at all for this single liturgical item to cost upwards of $500 each.

The idea of unfair linen came to me as I was contemplating ways that the sacred and secular are frequently set in opposition to each other, rather than being considered opposite ends of a continually shifting continuum. The blog posts and media here are the place where I let my particular geek flag fly by exploring the metaphysical side of life and faith.

Where Sacred & Secular Meet is an expression of this interest and my theology more than (what I consider to be) a catchy tagline, because God is always creating all that is, seen and unseen. Creation didn’t happen and it won’t happen soon, it’s the ongoing and present reality of existence. My theological approach is more metaphysical than systematic. It builds from first principles and nearly always returns there.

Where God is, there is existence. Where existence is, God is. Sacred and secular are limiting terms attempting to describe the infinite, and as such, fall so short in our attempt to translate them into something we can grasp. This blog is my own attempt to explore the edges and overlap of the holy and the mundane, celebrating what’s true of both, that all that is, seen and unseen, is what God intends.