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We are meditating on touching our Joy in spite of darkness and times of acedia. I offer a second concrete story here. One Fall semester I
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
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