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A reflection comparing word-based spiritual practices to embodied ones such as yoga.

Thanks, Jeff Frame. I miss this sort of thing. Some text for non-French speakers out there (like myself).   From Paris, Je T’aime “Faubourg Saint-Denis” directed by Tom Tykwer   THOMAS: “Francine, I remember exactly.  It was May 15th.  Spring was late, it was about to rain and you were screaming. . . . And […]

July 10-14, 2013 University of Northern Iowa A LAND BETWEEN TWO RIVERS Between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, a self-sustaining eco-system that now comprises the state of Iowa was created over thousands of years. In 1800, 240 million acres of tall grass prairie covered middle America. By 1900, this land had been transformed into farm […]

“She could no longer hold her flesh together,” observes Tania Runyan in her description of a bronzed statue of a woman carrying “the heft of the commandments,” her mouth open in a silent, graven prayer.

“Political Language is designed to make lies sound truthful, and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.” George Orwell The rhetoric of the so-called right and the left are, as I type, reaching a fevered pitch. It’s not that I’m anti-rhetoric. I love the Big R. But the nature of […]

Infatutation: (noun) a foolish or all absorbing passion or an instance of this: a mere infatuation that will not last “In the modern philosophy….it cannot hope to find any romance, its romances will have no plots. A man cannot expect any adventures in the land of anarchy.” G. K. Chesterton, “Authority and the Adventurer,” 1908   Too much information, this appears to be our […]

MORE THAN A FEW filmmakers have plotted a career path or artistic journey from documentary to fictional cinema. For some, it’s a fairly straight path. Krzysztof Kieślowski shot a doc on the Polish court system, where he met a lawyer who became his screenwriter and the rest was less history than art. Other journeys are […]

I just picked up a collection of sermons by St. Basil the Great from the Popular Patristic Series put out by St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.  This is the first collection of St. Basil’s work particularly dedication to Social Justice in the English language; hence the title On Social Justice.  In the coming weeks, I will be […]

Please check out this this interview by one of our contributors, J. Aaron Simmons. The word “postmodernism” has had an interesting history over the past fifty years. Originally, the term described a style of architecture. The word postmodern has since spread to all aspects of culture. Moreover, it has become a key term in the […]