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Joy is bigger than and deeper than humans hating one another and themselves and even Mother Earth. Joy trumps our sadness when we can learn to
Living in a time of war and wars, it behooves us to get a bigger perspective. An awareness of history helps with that, as does an
In the midst of war — war in Gaza and Israel, war in Ukraine, and constant preparations for war around the world — it behooves
August 28, 2023. The Original Blessing of the CosmosIn this meditation we reflect upon the idea that the Cosmos is an Original Blessing, for without
Last night I saw a documentary on the raising of the half-sunken ship Costa Concordia from its watery grave near the Giglio Porto at Tuscan Island off
Aquinas, like most indigenous and pre-modern thinkers, and unlike the human-centered philosophers of the modern and industrial era, begins his philosophy with the universe. Our
In yesterday’s DM we spoke of reintroducing a sense of the cosmos. To say that we need to “reintroduce” is to say that we have lost the
When Aquinas says that “the vision of God is arrived at through justice” means that the Via Transformativa and the work of justice open up
Aquinas tells us that the prophet Isaiah talks about two things— Justice, which he possesses, and a vision of God. And they follow one upon another. For
We have, necessarily it seems to me, been meditating on the very dark news coming from the current very compromised Supreme Court since they laid
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