Good and Evil
“An evil person is not someone who is nothing but evil, someone with no redeeming features or virtues whatsoever. An evil person is not a...
Beauty
“Since man is “called to be a god” (i.e. was created to become a god), as long as he does not find himself on the path of Theosis he...
Image and Likeness
“…by entering into His created order by means of the Incarnation, God intimately unites Himself to our nature, thereby infusing it with...
Courage
“The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage had a very different...
Incarnation
“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...
Body and Soul/Spiritual and Physical
“That the soul is superior to the body is an assumption based in Hellenistic philosophy and is a bit dualistic as the bible presents...
Nature
“In the created world only the human being combines material and spiritual elements. Human existence is thus differentiated from...
Transcendence
“…our age is haunted. On the one hand, we live under a brass heaven, ensconced in immanence. We live in the twilight of both gods and...
Glimpses
"The divine cannot be easily explained or clearly defined, but yet God is not completely out of reach either; divine mysteries can be...
Longings and Yearnings
“Human beings have an innate sense of transcendence and longing for ultimate reality experienced only in the internal presence of God.”...