“All love tends towards ecstasy,” Thomas Merton writes, “in the sense that it takes us out of ourselves and makes us live in the object of our love.” For the God who is love, this […]
Category: Grace
The Feast Day of C.S. Lewis, Patron of the Imagination
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis. Known perhaps best as an author of children’s fiction and as a Christian apologist, Lewis was a student of the imagination and talented in […]
Heaven on Their Minds: Salvation, Commodity, and Relationship
I should probably begin by making a confession (we are talking about the afterlife, after all). The question of salvation has not been a big one in my life. I haven’t spent a lot of […]
Sin and Grace in Broadchurch
SPOILER WARNING: This post reveals the identity of Danny Latimer’s killer and the conclusion to the first season. “That’s nothing to do with this.” As Broadchurch’s investigation into Danny Latimer’s death evolves and expands to […]
“Feelings…nothing more than, feelings”
Of late I’ve been thinking about feelings. In particular, how easy it is to over-identify with one’s feelings. In other words, how easy it is to confuse one’s self with one’s feelings. I’ve been trying […]
