Game and ritual
I have been reading an excellent book by George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, and K. Robert Gutschera called The Characteristics of Games. Although they avoid giving any final definition, they offer various ro... Read More...
The Sculptor and the search for meaning
So many of the great artists of our generation are consumed by the task of trying to find a way of coping with a meaningless world.
You are a Victorian priest (sort of)
The struggle of priests has nearly always been to relate to their flocks — to be, in Pope Francis’ memorable phrasing, “shepherds with the smell of sheep.”
Chasing chastity
Jason Ingalls reviews Dawn Eden's newly revised "Catholic edition" of The Thrill of the Chaste.
Secular holiness, or how to be happy in the zombie apocalypse
“Modern life feels rather undead.”
Sarah Smith of Golders Green
In the abstract, “sanctity” is boring.
Experiencing God
Many Episcopalians would reflexively balk at “experiential” ways of speaking about Christian faith. They disillusioned by forms of the faith that elicit intense emotional highs but may lack the patterns and habits of living and praying that can sustain faith over the long haul.
Prayer culture
God wants to transform me and use the transformed me to transform his world. But how?