“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.” —…
The Rise of Sophia | Part 2 “The Lord brought me forth at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From eternity I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.” — Proverbs 8:22-23 I remember wholeness before I knew it had a…
The Algorithm of Exile and the Mercy of Scattering “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” — Genesis 11:4 The Summit of…
THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 7 “What you are called to is not a new set of beliefs, but a recovery of memory.” — An Ancient Christian Maxim We have traced the arc of a hollowing civilization. In the first six parts, we witnessed the inversion of social…
“We have a tragic history of making tragic history, and then pretending it didn’t happen.” — James Howard Kunstler I’ve been reading Jim Kunstler’s World Made by Hand novels. For those who haven’t, they’re set in a not-too-distant future upstate New York after the total collapse of modern systems—peak oil,…
Consciousness, Love, and the Long Work of Becoming “Distance is the soul of beauty.” —Simone Weil Sometimes an idea arrives with such force it breaks the schedule. This is one of them. Consider this unscheduled writing a sign of right-brain connectivity—a sudden opening in the year’s final days that also…
“Outstanding, sophisticated, and mesmerizing…a spiritual intrigue similar to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.” —ForeWord Reviews