Approaching the Cross
The Christian faith, properly understood, is not a faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith of Jesus Christ. This faith is the willingness to act on the basis of trust that the submission of the Self to...
View ArticleBargaining: Grief’s Detour
Perhaps the worst thing that can happen to a grieving person who is going through the bargaining stage of the process is to actually get what they are bargaining for, precisely because they aren’t...
View ArticleContemplating Suicide Made me a Philosopher
After spending my whole life reading and four years studying philosophy, economics, and political science at the university level, I reckon that I didn’t do a minute of genuine philosophical inquiry...
View ArticleAbundant Life, at Peace with Death
“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” The Gospel of St John “Oh death, where is thy...
View ArticleBreaking Up & Relationship Half-Life Theory
Many years ago I remember a friend of mine remarking to me that the amount of time required to get over and completely move past a breakup or divorce was half the length of the time the relationship...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Do-Over
[IMPORTANT NOTE: I take no position on whether Brexit was good or bad, and none of the following is to be construed as favoring Brexit. I am merely providing an objective political analysis of the...
View ArticleChristmas Clickbait in the Time of Russian Hackers
What follows is either ruinous heresy or a rare act of orthodox rebellion against it. I of course am staking my soul that it is not heresy, after all, but it is neither I nor my reader who will...
View ArticleRadical Attachment
The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics in Opposition to Stoicism and Rome The emotional and spiritual void of post-modern consumer life is leading many in our generation to search the archives of...
View ArticleThe American Suicide Cult
Anthony Bourdain’s suicide hits me pretty hard in this particular moment. I used to watch his show regularly during my Wilderness years, living in the mountains outside of Santiago de Chile, and...
View ArticleThe Sobriety of the Individual an Age of Mass Insanity
“There is something in the water.” This old phrase provides an explanation for the appearance of symptoms of mass hysteria, or peculiar behavior, amongst a group of people sharing some plot of land and...
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