Articles
Marginalize Mozart, Whip The Devil
2003-04-20 09:19The contemplative love that marginalizes Mozart deals the same fate to MTV and Madonna and Mercedes Benz and Chiat\Day. Against this love the devil has no hope. The devil should be worried.
Christ Grasping Hold
2003-04-16 10:34The psalms are Christ grasping hold of our interior life, and taking for himself the struggle and battle and joy of it.
The Essence of Contemplation is Obedience
2003-04-05 20:06If your superior asks you to clean the toilets, you clean the toilets.
War and Reality
2003-03-27 09:45Perhaps we need war: if only to break the illusion that our purpose is in this world, which is the same illusion that makes war inevitable.
Monastery No Longer Required
2003-03-16 08:30The life habit of contemplation has traditionally been relegated to monasteries. But the tradition is about to change. Technology has changed it.
Whom The Beast Calls Home
2003-03-08 10:36Perhaps we ought to be more careful when we presume to know the chosen habitat of the Beast: perhaps the Beast finds his most welcome home with us.
Small Town Familiarity
2003-02-02 11:23One can disappear in the vast expanse of suburbs and malls and cities. We begin to think that this model of privacy is ideal. But as the Internet makes us less mysterious to each other, perhaps our standard of privacy needs return to small town familiarity.
Faults
2003-01-31 13:29Faults are distinct from self, in fact they are the contrary of self: or at least they ought to be, when the self is whole and warm with God.
On Being Nothing
2003-01-02 12:02The desert is not sweet, and real solitude is brutal: their value is not in themselves, but in their being empty of everything sensible: they are where nothing is, but God alone.