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To see through every regime
To be a follower of Jesus … means … to see through every regime that promises peace through violence, peace through domination, peace through genocide, peace through exclusion and intimidation....
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The liberation of saying ‘No’
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or perhaps even always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at. Thus Simone Weil in Waiting for God....
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Sandals with socks
As Ian Adams points out, in Cave, Refectory, Road: Monastic Rhythms for Contemporary Living: In the religious communities that I know, sandals with socks are more than fine. Yay! Tagged: Ian Adams,...
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The marks of the beast
The marks offered them sure and peaceful sleep, a way to acquire prestige and a thousand unnecessary things. To continue along this path, they had to harden themselves against the Lamb and against His...
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A source of life and service
In her poem ‘The Lord’s Prayer from Guatemala’ (1979), also published in Threatened with Resurrection/Amenazado de resurrección, Julia Esquivel envisages that: churches abandon their structures of...
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Life, food, air
It’s the really hungry who can smell fresh bread a mile away. For those who know their need, God is immediate – not an idea, not a theory, but life, food, air for the stifled spirit and the beaten,...
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The barbarians have already been governing us for quite some time
What matters … is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages, which are already upon us. The...
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Mystery vs certainty
Spirituality and fundamentalism are at opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. Spirituality seeks a sensitive, contemplative relationship with the sacred and is able to sustain levels of uncertainty in...
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Lion Isaiahists and Wolf Isaiahists battling over the Peaceable Kingdom
The Lion Isaiahists and the Wolf Isaiahists both preached on street corners, battling when they met: they were at odds over whether it was the lion or the wolf that would lie down with the lamb once...
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Re-membering and the ongoing work of making creation whole
Some sobering and insightful thoughts about the Eucharist from Sara Miles’s inspiring book Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion: The entire contradictory package of Christianity was present in the...
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The body was even scarier
Interesting thoughts by Margaret Atwood on ‘dirty words': The bad ones in French are the religious ones, the worst ones in any language were what they were most afraid of and in English it was the...
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The Great Chain of Being à la Auntie Muriel
Some lines from Margaret Atwood’s novel Life before Man: Auntie Muriel is unambiguous about most things. Her few moments of hesitation have to do with members of her own family. She isn’t sure where...
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An extra-ness in the air
… there was an extra-ness in the air, as if a gate had been left open in the usual life, as if something might get in or get out. From Seamus Heaney’s book District and Circle Tagged: life, poetry,...
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Hate has no world
Hate has no world. The people of hate must try to possess the world of love, for it is the only world; it is Heaven and Earth. But as lonely, eager hate possesses it, it disappears; it never did exist,...
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Education, passivity and God’s plan for humanity
I was rather interested in Michel de Verteuil’s comment (in: Let All the Peoples Praise Him: Lectio Divina and the Psalms) that because of the insights of great educators like Paulo Freire, we are...
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St Peter
Impulsive master of misunderstanding, You comfort me with all your big mistakes; Jumping the ship before you make the landing, Placing the bet before you know the stakes. I love the way you step out...
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Creating your world
The way you tell the story about your world will … co-create that world. Gareth Higgins, ‘Here isn’t the news’, Third Way, Summer 2014 Tagged: Gareth Higgins, story, Third Way
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Window
The familiar face of the person we live with, the quality of their steadfast covenant love, can suddenly become a window through which the face of the God who loves us in and through them shines....
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Pole-dancing and the end of universities as centres of humane critique
We are living through a point in the history of Western academia so momentous it’s hard for us to wrap our minds around it – namely, the effectual end of universities as centres of humane critique, the...
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The serious doubter
The serious doubter, the sincere enquirer, the person who hesitates a long time on a threshold, these are all people to be honoured and encouraged, not, as is so often the case, either demonized or...
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