Love (Toughness of Love)
“One of my students came to seminary when he was already middle-aged, after considerable success in the world. This student was later...
Sickness (Illness)
“Life itself is a form of ascesis. People just don’t recognize it, and lose heart.”…The fact [life], is ascetic in nature means it...
Forgetfulness (Spiritual)
“The received word of God, sown into the depth of the heart, begins its secret work, like leaven in dough. However, that which was heard...
Seeing
“People always seem to be thinking too literally, and Jesus is always moving them from the literal to the spiritual level—to seeing...
Community, Individualism, and How to Live
“So we see dramatized in Genesis the bitter “fruit” of an approach to the interpretation of spiritual realities that attempts to be...
Devotion
“This is what Christ means when He says that all the Law and the Prophets are contained in these two commands–He means that the Law and...
Creation
“God creates the cosmos so that love between beings is possible. God creates the world with the intention of entering into the world in...
Human Beings (Becoming Fully Human)
“ ‘Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him,...
Symbols
“The Lord knows that we can only make sense of the world through rational engagement with it, and so we are given patterns and symbols to...
Structure
“The concept of structure has been given a bad name not only by pietism, which puts all the emphasis on what is within man or his ethical...