A catechism of Nature (3): Edge effect
We were again on the edge of something exceeding our competence, a patchwork of boundaries.
A catechism of Nature (2): the vernal transgression of boundaries
Late winter's dormant destinies are disclosed by the spring.
A catechism of Nature (1): Reason and the destiny of animal life
Reason, the thing that separates us from brute beasts, does not liberate us from animality, but it liberates animality itself, for the actualization of a potential that cannot be actualized without reason.
The deterioration of nature: on the running out of time
Oceans of ink have been spilled on the subject of time’s sanctification according to the Church’s calendar, and, certainly, conforming one’s life to the calendar, observing feasts and fasts and seasons, affords... Read More...
Benedicite: a meditation on language and transcendence
I thought of how the landscape is an icon of our predicament. The insularity of humanity, the impermeable boundaries of our selfhoods, of our discourses and desires; it is all a great conspiracy of alienation.
The Cross, the form of marriage
The Cross is the nuptial bed on which is consummated the union of divine nature and human nature in the “one flesh” of Jesus. Nothing connotes this more powerfully than our Lord’s final “word” from the cross.
Bruce Jenner and wild onions: technophilic introspection and the data of nature
The narrow world of public discourse in the United States has recently been consumed by the spectacle of Bruce Jenner purporting to turn himself into a woman.
“It is finished”: the residue of the Passion in Eastertide
Jesus’ ministry in the world was, as it were, a betrothal. But the Cross is the consummation of the union of divine nature and human nature.