In this episode, we turn to the next of our spiritual “personality types” (i.e., attraits) – the apophatic-speculatives. What defines an apophatic is a basic desire to escape distraction. They are the ones who love the very idea of a silent retreat or the spiritual practice of “simplicity.” They are not anti-creation. Nor are they anti-social or...
Author: Kirk Winslow
Loving God 401, Part 4: Experiencing God in the World (i.e., Kataphatic-Affectives)
Just as some people need faith to make intellectual sense, so others need to feel it – to have the emotional experience of God’s presence, to know in the manner of the heart and not the head. These are the “affectives.” (And all of us are affective to a degree, some just more so than...
Clean Slates, Fresh Starts and What Really Makes Things New
For me, another January 1st begs the question: Is “new” really possible? New in the sense of a genuinely a clean slate, a fresh start, even new heart or a new creation? I want to say yes, but the combination of my awareness of a finite universe, my limited capacities and many failed “resolutions” leave me wondering....