SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“…in the sacraments, we are not asking God to make something to be other than it is but to reveal it to be what it truly is…A problem...

“In literature and in art, we call the inversion of two elements a “chiasm,” from the Greek letter Chi (Χ) that can be physically traced...

“No one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, but we so often freely worship false gods when we ground the meaning...

“I know well from a history of panic attacks that shallow, quickened breath is a symptom of deep distress. I also know well the wild...

“Everything we can see is in reality calling us to something much deeper, and everything in creation transcends its material existence.”...

“But Nietzsche, madman and destroyer of faith, fascinated me. His work was twisted and imaginative, truthful and awful and compelling; he...

“The food and drink of nature sustains natural life, and only natural life.  A few years ago on a warm summer afternoon I was sitting on...

“It’s impossible to harvest the fields with a shovel, or to hammer with a sickle, or to build with a knife, or to dig with a saw… but...

“We fail to understand that knowledge is an act of communion. In some measure, everything we “know” becomes a part of us, and in becoming...

“Yahweh does not respect persons … It is because of His own character and their responsibility to bring about His justice that the judges...