____________________________________________________________ Here is the book description for Beauty Will Save the World from my publisher (Charisma House). (I’d say they they got the book description just about right. A tip of my hat to whoever wrote it.) ____________________________________________________________ Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the allure and mystery of Christianity Publication Date: January 3, 2012 [...]
God Is Like Jesus
________________________________________________________ God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus. We have not always known what God is like— But now we do. Consider these two foundational truths of Christian theology: 1. God is immutable. i.e. God does not change and is [...]
Karl Rahner’s Prayer
____________________________________________ My friend Sister Ginny, a Benedictine nun, sent me this prayer composed by the great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner. I think it is worth sharing, worth meditating upon, and most of all, worth praying. O God, whenever I think of Your Infinity, I am racked with anxiety, wondering how You are disposed to me. [...]
The Beautiful Alternative
“Evil is to be overcome by forgiveness. As likewise is violence.” -John Milbank, Christ the Exception Jesus gives us an alternative to violence. Forgiveness. Jesus didn’t just theorize about it, he lived it. On the cross Christ made his message credible. He lived it all the way to the end. And calls us to follow [...]
The Idea that Created the Killing Fields
I will always put the needs of the nation before those of the individual. -Nuon Chea Nuon Chea (noon chee-ah) was the intellectual who provided the ideology for the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and was second in command to the infamous Pol Pot. Within the Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea was known as “brother number two.” [...]
Manhood Is Not Brutality
Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of the Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when [...]
Love Economics
Love your neighbor as yourself. —Jesus Jesus didn’t teach capitalist economics or socialist economics, Jesus taught love economics. In this present fallen age, the competition of a free market is probably the best way to arrange an economy, for the simple reason that the market is far more capable of fixing prices than any central [...]
Blessed are the Meek
“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” —Jesus At the top of a list of things Jesus said that we don’t really believe I would place the third beatitude. Here are some of my thoughts on this most unsettling saying from Christ. What is Jesus really saying in the third beatitude? Is [...]
Thinking Tikkun Olam in Istanbul
I’m sitting on a rooftop in Istanbul. I’m thinking. Thinking about the world. Thinking about Jesus. I’m thinking about Jesus as the savior of the world and the Jewish concept of tikkun olam (“to mend the world”). The world is broken. It needs mending. Jesus is the answer. Jesus is the savior. Jesus is the [...]
Beauty Will Save The World
Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
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