
A Story of Healing Acedia and Depression Sans Pills
Yesterday I responded to a letter from a psychologist who did not like my naming acedia and depression as a spiritual issue. The suggestion was that
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Yesterday I responded to a letter from a psychologist who did not like my naming acedia and depression as a spiritual issue. The suggestion was that

May 1, 2023. Pleasure & Holiness, ContinuedMatthew continues the theme he launched the earlier week, that contrasted the punitive, judgmental God of patriarchy, with a

Having named the “five supreme joys” within Divinity, Julian tells us that “Christ wants us to rejoice in them, too.” She recognizes three faces in

We are meditating on Joy because in our meditations on Evil, Rabbi Heschel reminded us that holiness is the prime medicine for evil. What is

Aquinas connects joy to consciousness when he says, “God is supremely joyful and therefore supremely conscious.” Is that your experience too, that consciousness and joy

For some time now we have been meditating on Evil. This is so important to do. Spirituality is not ultimately about comfort. It is about living a life

In the past two DMs we have been dealing with Brian Swimme’s story of how differently 50,000 chimps and 50,000 humans will act in a

On Monday, the Fox “News” Corporation unceremoniously fired its most popular and out front preacher, Tucker Carlson. It happened very abruptly, thus preventing him from saying

Yesterday we meditated on our cosmic and earthly belonging and how wonderful it is to belong to this universe of two trillion galaxies and to this exuberant

My apologies for a mistake I made in my meditation on Earth Day. But it’s not so bad a mistake–it’s sort of a positive Freudian
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