What is the spirit of our age? What is the vision set before us today by “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2:2)? That is a massive question, but perhaps it goes something like this: man has …
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Note: All of the quotes in the post (except Bible verses) are from The Erotic Phenomenon by Jean-Luc Marion. There are so many questions we can ask of ourselves and the world, and so many tasks to take up. There …
Continue readingThe World Health Organization has identified depression as the #1 most common illness across the globe today. In looking at the global burden of disease, no sickness burdens us as a planet more than depression. Moreover, depression is the second …
Continue readingThere is such a thing as spiritual hemorrhoids. St. Teresa of Avila knew about it: When you pray you may wish to picture yourself in the presence of Christ and be caught up in a great love for his sacred …
Continue readingHow often do we fight for an identity? We read books, dress in certain ways, attend particular events, talk in certain ways, join groups, look for new jobs, pursue projects, hang around with a certain kind of people – in …
Continue readingMaybe one of the deepest frustrations there is in following the Lord is dying to our own conceptions of who ought to be. There comes a time when the Lord asks us to do something that we can’t make sense …
Continue readingEvery once in a while it’s good to see God’s undeniable penmanship on each and every human heart. Here’s a neat example. It’s a well-established fact that with every subsequent generation fewer people consider themselves religious or go to church. …
Continue readingWhat do I mean when I say ‘me’? What is my ‘self’? This seems like an esoteric, impractical, academic question. In reality, it illuminates a lie as common in everyday life as this line of thinking: The term “gender identity”… …
Continue readingIn our world that is built on technology, we can tend to look at ourselves as problems. We imagine ourselves to be an amalgamation of functions and we search for techniques of living that can maximize our functional capacity and …
Continue readingBut what is exact is first of all that the absence of uneasiness… is a serious symptom… We can make a generalization: a soul to which all uneasiness about oneself is foreign is a soul affected with sclerosis. (Gabriel Marcel) …
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