A good friend recently made a very kind assumption about me: that, if I had experienced God, I would not be willing to admit it. I haven’t answered the friend’s email yet, but it has made me think about my spiritual “privacy policy.” Orthodox Christianity has a “democracy” in the Chestertonian sense. The Church is strong, not just in her saints, but in her day-to-day faithful. The conviction and faithfulness and loyalty and spiritual intensity of these folk, and the willingness to patiently apply Christian obedience to everyday life, is… Read more Democracy and Aristocracy in Orthodox Christian Spiritual Experience →
Poetically this verse doesn’t really sing, does it? But the thoughts expressed, and the economy of words with which they are expressed, have been just what I needed this morning. After Thomas Kempis by George MacDonald I. Who follows Jesus shall not walk Read the Gospel In darksome road with danger rife; But in his heart the Truth will talk, And on his way will shine the Life. So, on the story we must pore Of him who lives for us, and died, That we may see him walk before,… Read more A’ Kempis and MacDonald: Something for Me and my Readers From a Couple of our Favorite Western Christians →
A: If our world had been formed and filled by some lesser god, I think he would have made the vast mistake of laboring with too straight a back. His steely arrowed finger would stab the… Read more Conversation About Bowing Down →
Slow Literature 