SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“The loss of this participation and the subsequent diminution and corruption of their being is what it means for an angelic being to...

“What is spiritual renewal? It is when you are no longer weighed down by the burden of past traumas and mistakes, your present is filled...

“…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...

“Christian witness is not just supplying material needs. It is supplying all human needs: material needs as well as consolation,...

“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.”...

“A false Eden represents a significant theme in the Scriptures—the attempt by human beings to make for themselves that which God had...

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