[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6749016/height/90/width/600/thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/570535/custom-color/06287b” height=”90″ width=”600″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] We seem to be experiencing a shift in contemporary western politics away from a competition of ideas in pursuit of the best solution to our problems and towards a tribalism that seeks power for its own sake and is more and more willing to...
Category: Spiritual Formation
Love at the Center
...when all is said and done, I have found no other explanation for the world as I know it – in all its beauty, complexity, pain, and hope - than the vision of love that I believe stands at the center of the biblical story...
Losing Faith, and Finding God after “God”
Doubt, true doubt (not the mere intellectual variety, but the deep questioning an agonized soul), is one of the most painful and most necessary aspects of the life of faith. All the great saints have been through it. From Augustine in his Confessions to St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night of the Soul, the church...