via her blog Sexual Authenticity Apparently After 2am I Become an Augustinian Once upon a time beauty was everywhere But somehow when we fell it altered Concentrated in particular moments Made more beautiful by contrast And the reign almost ubiquitous of ugliness Was the triumph of the good Everywhere truth …
Every once and awhile a YouTube video comes along that is to good not to share. This is one of those. This is for those of you who know a little about music but wish you knew more. An assessable introduction into what has been going on over the course …
This was published in the March 2014 issue of First Things. I have (literally) been waiting years for someone to formally make the connections Hannon makes in this short piece. Also, a tremendous piece to follow up with after reading Melinda Selmy’s new book Sexual Authenticity: More Reflections. Against Heterosexuality …
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Well….it’s that time of year and everyone’s got their lists. Actually, I sheepishly (in a guilty pleasure sort of way) look forward to all of the end of the year “Best Of” music lists. There have been some good ones making the rounds. So, instead of repeating some of the …
In no particular order… David Bentley Hart: The Experience of God: Being,Consciousness, Bliss Watch Hart give a lecture on “Beauty as Knowledge of God” here. N.T. Wright: Paul and the Faithfulness of God Tom Wright talks about his Magnum Opus here. Malcolm Gladwell’s: David and Goliath – Underdogs, Misfits, and …
Broken Cisterns He is as zephyred winds upon the soul, They said, And cloudless cloister skies Yawn over the galeless haven of the heart. Strange, no one said His love would be A vague unrest in all my deepest peace… They spoke with sighs of flowery cloister ways And of …
The new Son Lux (aka Ryan Lott) album is streaming over at the Son Lux BandCamp site…
…Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
That doesn’t mean in any way that we withdraw from the world, but rather we want to serve our Christian and non-Christian brothers and sisters as much as possible by trying to find ways to live cooperatively in a manner that does not need to resort to violence.
To think however that we can give you a nonviolent foreign policy is just not going to be the case. Because we first of all don’t think about what we would do if we were president. We worry about how in the world as faithful followers of Christ we ever ended up being president! But that doesn’t mean we’re not trying to find ways for both Christians and non-Christians to live lives with as little violence as possible…war serves as the great liturgical event for Americans, where we sacrifice the youth of the present generation to show that the sacrifices of the youth of the past generations were worthy. So war becomes the great ritual moral renewal of the American society. - Stanley Hauerwas (Interview in The Atlantic – What Makes America so Prone to Intervention?)