The Restless Desire to Know Thyself By Mike Michielin Many today are “perplexed by desire and what it says about who we are as human beings.” Typically, today’s philosophers, psychologists, educators, and the media tell us to look inward and t... Read More...
Common Objects of American Love: Augustine and the Inaugural Address By Mark Clavier I admit that I occasionally can be a theological curmudgeon. I say this not to boast nor even to excuse myself since I’m not quite prepared to repent of it. It stems, I think, from a sensitiv... Read More...
The Seedbed of Christian Biblical Interpretation The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew. By Ronald E. Heine First edition. 2 vols. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. ix + 773, $270. Review by Paul D. W... Read More...
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great By Hannah Matis On Christmas Day, Pixar released on Disney+ another of its gorgeous, bittersweet, complicated creations. In the tradition of Inside Out and Coco, this one is called Soul, and concerns one jun... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 3 A Eucharistic Prayer By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from local liturgi... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 2 Material for the Holy Communion By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from lo... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 1 Material for the Service of the Word By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson The phrase “experimental liturgy” often evoke a sense of leaving behind traditional texts, shapes and language use. At a time wh... Read More...
Universally Accessible and Innately Personal: The Significance of Relationship in St. Benedict’s Humility By Elizabeth Elin In a world fraught with desperation and insecurity, humility appears to be an antiquated virtue, frequently discarded due to its destructive effect on self-esteem. Today, it seems that humi... Read More...
