Seeing Our Way Forward Through the Unifying Lens of Love
It’s a cold and foggy morning in western Kentucky. The colors are muted, and outlines of shapes and forms are increasingly blurred as you look towards the distance to a…
Heart of Matter: Religion is a Deep-Rooted Energy
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 “Despite the modern privatization of religion or the outright dismissal of it, religion won’t go away—ever—because religion is about the deep-rooted energies of the spirit yearning for…
Who is in the Manger?
Christmas is a beautiful time of the year when we are reminded that the heavens could not contain God, but a simple manger could contain the mystery of divine love. …
The Heart of Matter: A Divine Kiss
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 “The name God points to the mystery of an unspeakable source of eternal love that flows endlessly from the divine kiss that is, at once, a…
Thick Skins and Brilliant Light
Darkness can be a terrifying and disorienting thing, where objects seem to blend into a field of nothingness, leaving one feeling powerless. Physical darkness is one thing, but psychological darkness…
Soul Brothers? St. Paul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Apostle to the ‘Gentiles’ of Modernity
THE TENSIONS OF CHRISTIAN HUMANISM It is the problem of Christian humanism, of how to balance the interests of God and those of human beings. When correctly interpreted, Teilhard would…
The Heart of Matter: Cosmic Life as a Whole
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 “To separate theology from science and philosophy is to destroy the cosmic genetic code. By keeping these disciplines distinct and apart, life cannot develop coherently, as a…
