It's possible to lose a feeling for who you are: thinking and acting and even emotional reactions all persist, but the identity underlying them can escape us. And yet we crave a strong and enduring sense of identity, essentially stable amidst all the changing circumstances of existence. At the heart of...
Who'd be a king? Invested with so much, placed so high - and yet always, in the end, divested, miniaturized, even done away with altogether. Kings begin well - too well - but are forever ending badly. There is at first such abundance, such potency - origins and authority and charisma...
Perhaps the most intriguing and suggestive of all the details surrounding St John the Baptist is the one which tells us of what was among his very first experiences: the leap in utero which the presence of Christ drew forth from him. How should we characterize that leap? We should...
It's possible to lose a feeling for who you are: thinking and acting and even emotional reactions all persist, but the identity underlying them can escape us. And yet we crave a strong and enduring sense of identity, essentially stable amidst all the changing circumstances of existence. At the heart of...
For John Bentley Mays, 1941-2016, Canadian Art and Architecture Critic Christianity, G. K. Chesterton said, is the only religion in which God Himself appears as an atheist. Chesterton is speaking of the Cross, and is considering the words of the Incarnate Son to His Father: My God, my God, why have...
