Are you hungry for an extended engagement with reality, for something that will awaken you more fully to the human condition? Consider joining us at the New York Encounter, February 15th through the 17th.
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Retelling the Story, Recovering the Reality: An Introduction to Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
So then, Abraham stands alone. He is silent. He has to be. How could he communicate his word from God? Who would understand it?
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Telling the Truth (Book Recommendation)
"The comedy of the gospel is the surprise grace of God that wrests humanity from sin and death and gives it unexpected and outlandish hope and purpose."
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The World as a Kolam: Reflections on Augustine and The Supper of the Lamb
As mankind elevates the world’s beauty through his senses, so his soul is elevated. He is transformed from a mere consumer of the world, to its attentive lover. And in this transformation he becomes what he was always meant to be: made in the image of God, participating in the Divine work of preserving and sustaining creation, fully inhabiting the created world, in which he lives and moves and has his being.
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[Dis]placed Poet: Thomas Merton’s Pilgrimage
The humble act of limitation in the Incarnation means that not only can God speak to us through various times and places, but rather that time and place are now qualities native to the eternal and omnipresent God. To be a person means to be a person in a place.
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“Call it”
It’s nineteen fifty-eight. It’s been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it’s here. And I’m here. And I’ve got my hand over it. And it’s either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
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Unity in Difference: Language-Learning and God’s Kingdom
Learning another language helps me not only understand, but better experience first-hand how another person thinks, feels, and interacts with the world
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Easter Monday and the New Creation
Easter Monday is a day of reckoning for the Christian. “The Lord is risen!” “The Lord is risen, indeed!” … but what difference does it make?
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Notre-Dame, the New West, and Wanting to See from the Inside
Perhaps Paris (and with it much of the West) does now seem to be a kind of twilight world – a museum to a way of life that has all but vanished, inhabited by a people who cannot seem to entirely forget. But perhaps it is in that very refusal to forget, in the inability to turn away from beauty, in the instinct of the Parisians (believers or not) who gathered on the streets to sing Ave Maria, that we should look for hope.
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Poetry and the Mystery of Time
Poetry allows us to meditate on our everyday experiences in ways that unearth profound mysteries we so frequently overlook. But to be more awake, more conscious, requires not only breaking from routine but also cultivating a different sense of time.
