Sublime

Ananias shares in Paul’s death experience, through kenosis, by being Paul’s minister. Although Ananias is free to protect himself and live for his own preservation, although that is Ananias’s right (shown in his skepticism), he is invited instead, through his own experience with Jesus’s personhood, to enter Paul’s

I’m not calling for an idealistic anti-sustainability or a demonizing of growth—although I am challenging us to be more reflective, even offering rich theological conceptions for such ecclesial realities. Dynamic stabilization is bred with many contradictions and perils, but it nevertheless is the system we find ourselves in. There is no way to sim

Every evening I try to set aside five or ten minutes to pray what Saint Ignatius called the prayer of Examen. After putting our toddler down, I lie on the futon next to his bed, quiet my thoughts, and hit the “play” button on the video of my day. I think about the people with whom I’ve spent time, the conversations I’ve had, the places I’ve been, a

Rosa believes that this movement of affection and emotion is essentially dialogical. It is the nature and movement of discourse. Resonance is word and response. This connects to two major themes of my own work. First, it connects to Taylor’s discussion on identity and our base as language animals. Taylor’s discussions of identity are bound in dialo

So, what I’m offering you is not a withdrawal from enjoyment; it’s a withdrawal from possessiveness, from anxiety, from tension, from depression at the loss of something.

Movement One

Sin and grace are eclipsed because disintegration becomes a necessary norm of dynamic stabilization. How can you be committed to something if you don’t have the time to know if it means something to you, to your story, to your overall sense of a good life?