SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Understood accurately, asceticism is about Beauty; it’s about attempting to be the sort of artists who won’t betray what they have seen of the beautiful. For example, we don’t fast in order to be good, but rather so that our devotion, our eros for Christ’s Beauty, will be absolute. Moral effort only matters when it expands that ascetic effort into the arena of Goodness. Moral struggle has to be an amplification of asceticism, never a substitute. It has to be the working out

“I consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone…He acts in a manner that...

“As Christians, then, we find ourselves in the awkward position, indicative of a genuine tension, of accepting our Lord’s teaching about...

“It would seem that we are back to the very beginning with the serpent in Eden—the first Gnostic?—whispering that God is not a good God...

“…it does not help that our image and sound rich society creates a living space that is extremely noisy. All around us there are...

“From a world held hostage by the idea that the quantifiably big, the numerically great, and the visibly expansive accurately describe...

“On some level we feel that we can’t trust others, that we can’t trust God to do what is right, and that we have to be in control by...

“My experience within social media is that any observed problem within our culture that is presented will attract an immediate flood of...

“We have to follow our life’s path, although our life isn’t always perfect. Let’s not just stand around waiting for everything to be...

“We humans have a very limited perspective on life, the cosmos and the divine. Our perspectives are limited by our own personal...