Volume II (A Faith Embracing All Creatures) of The Peaceable Kingdom Series is now available. If you order it now, it’s 40% off. Simply visit the publisher’s website, type in this code, CREATURES, and viola! A great book at almost half the price! As the point of the series is to think about what it […]
In “Tiniest Prayer,” the poet Nicholas Samaras recognizes the motion of prayer as one that humbles, that moves one “out of the center” and into the will of God.
The following is written by AJ aficionado (whatever that means), Matt Morin. My only contribution is the inclusion of The Clash song at the end. You can also locate this post at Profligate Grace. Cheers. ~~~~ Because I am either a charitable hearer of opposing viewpoints, or a glutton for punishment, I try to tune […]
THE SOUL St Anne’s College, University of Oxford 28 June – 1 July 2013 Ever since Descartes, the soul understood as immediate mental consciousness has tended to stand as a last bastion securing religious belief against naturalistic reduction. But today that bastion is under assault from the ‘new atheists’. However, the bastion is proving very […]
My friend at Elizabethtown College, Michael Long, emailed me a note about an article he recently published for The Huffington Post. It’s a very timely peace that’s all about presidents, politics, and those ‘ambassadors of God’ that love to buttress power. Why is it always so seductive? What I like most about the article is the […]
In “Unseen,” the poet Luci Shaw examines air as both force and shelter, a mysterious tabernacle “for what we can’t see.”
J. Aaron Simmons Department of Philosophy Furman University aaron.simmons@furman.edu I would like to begin this short rejoinder to Ed Hackett’s critique of my notion of postmodern kataphaticism by thanking him for his time and energy in responding to my short essay. What follows is not at all intended to be conclusive, but simply one more […]
Cathy Warner offers a segmented chronology of her prayer life, an ongoing search to rest in the love of God, even “beyond words.”
Holy Motors touched a nerve. Void of almost any exposition, it seems designed to provoke. We know only what we see: A man named Oscar (Denis Lavant) travels through Paris in a white limo, changing identities and stopping at one place after another to act out in bizarre, sometimes disturbing ways. We don’t know why, […]