Alright, look: I hate sentimentality just as much as the next guy. Valentines day is a recent memory, at the time of this writing— and this year it deliciously lined up with Ash Wednesday: with trip to church, with smearing ashes on my forehead and ...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
Broken-Heartedness, the Bride of the Logos
Internally, Logos gathers knowledge from the distant reaches of the understanding, moves it downwards toward the heart. In its heartfelt form, knowledge becomes wisdom. But it doesn’t do that without a dying of the ego. When the ego dies, we ...
Thursday, February 8, 2018
On removing "Self" from knowing
Part of the problem with Catholicism is not the truth, but what it means to know that truth.
We speak all the time in Catholic ethics about the need to avoid objectifying things, or using them for our own selfish ends. This is really just a ...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Mediation and Medicine: A Divine Ethic of Human and Medicinal Assistance
After the death of Jesus, the Apostles fled Jerusalem. On the road to Emmaus, they met a stranger. They confessed their grief that Jesus had not accomplished what they’d hoped—he hadn't restored the kingdom to Israel and kicked the Romans out of ...
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