Facing What You Absolutely Cannot Overcome
Evil is illusion. It has no “reality” per se in much the same way that darkness is nothing in and of itself but instead is the absence of light. That being said, boy, at times it sure feels...
View ArticleFacing What You Simply Cannot Overcome II
Evil progresses in three stages. Ideation: A spark, an idea, happens somewhere, often unrelated to the actual problem. Ideation begets rationalization. Consideration: Now we enter a trouble zone where...
View ArticleWhat the “Dark Night of the Soul” Reveals
Many (all?) travel through what St. John of the Cross referred to as the “Dark Night of the Soul.” What does that “night” accomplish? I wonder at times if these dark nights are the only thing that...
View Article“The Online Looking Glass”
In a recent New York Times OpEd piece Ross Douthat wrote of the recent challenges facing Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York. Writing in the late ’70s, Lasch distinguished modern narcissism from...
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Sean Payton and the New Orleans Saints
Catching up this morning on news and noted how the coach of the New Orleans Saints, Sean Payton was suspended for a year. The cause was the practice of raising locker room bounties in which the saints...
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Shun Evil or Shun The Evil?
Much of Christianity over the decades has closely followed the biblical imperative to shun evil. A cornerstone of repentance, it calls us to see darkness just as that, darkness. In Isaiah, the...
View ArticleI Think We Are All Insane Sometimes
In this particular faith, we regard evil as frankly, insane. And we can glorify in the very insanity, finding great satisfaction in what Emanuel Swedenborg phrased as the “insanities of evil.” Paul,...
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The Allergic Reaction to the Word “Sin”
Many struggle with the word “sin” a word often drawing an immediate connection with the word “guilt.” Raised in cultures steeped in those two descriptors, descriptors used to capture what some churches...
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Life is Beautiful. Life is Hard.
We just know this, that life is beautiful and that life is hard. The fruit of life, as it were, at times looks looks deeply appealing. Other times, that fruit is a bitter pill. Two fruits. One life....
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