Mac Stewart was born and raised in Raleigh, NC, at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, and served as an Episcopal clergyman from 2014 until 2022. He completed degrees at UNC-Chapel Hill (B.A., Philosophy, 2009), Duke Divinity School (M.Div., 2013), Yale Divinity School (S.T.M., 2014), and The Catholic University of America (Ph.D., 2022). He served churches in Oklahoma, Maryland, and Washington, DC, and has taught several courses as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Theology at CUA. He was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church on January 16th, 2023.
The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.
Visible and audible beauty is not a gratuitous irradiation of a prior and more central value, but rather adheres directly to the material objects because of their form and color.
St Basil: “I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that everywhere, wherever you may be, the least plant may bring to you the clear remembrance of the Creator.”