profession to get respectability or to get esteem, but only made it that he might honor Christ and glorify his Master. The spiritual meaning of it all is this -- We have no houses of God now; bricks and mortar are not holy, the places where we worship God are places of worship, but...
Naftaly Frenkel, whom Solzhenitsyn characterizes as the spiritual father of Gulag’s slave labor system, is quoted as opining that a prisoner on general work was expected to last three to four months, after which time no further use for him could be looked for. So much for the narrative of...
John records the grumbling of the crowds and the growing sense of alarm among the disciples as Jesus’ riffing on the metaphor of bread as spiritual food leads him to make some rather startling claims: I am the bread of life, come down from heaven. I am the bread of life, whoever come...
system is based on Roman rigidity (that's why students sit silently like legionnaires in grids), which has nothing to do with life and its free exchange of information and self-organization of living things, and has rather the opposite effect, namely of wholesale spiritual death and ...
Without meaning to sound insensitive, I believe my friend’s bestie (the widow) would have relished the opportunity to explore someone else’s pain. To help someone who had so profoundly helped HER all these months. To give back. To not just need but be needed. ...
When I read these words in Scripture, I can’t help but notice how drab my view of the same spiritual landscape is by comparison. I wonder why my church seems to be so different from theirs. But I think I know the answer. It’s because I lack of imagination. “The trick of reason...
Losing our first tooth. It’s kind of a big deal and one many of us remember no matter how many years have past. So, this past weekend when my youngest grandaughter lost her first tooth it became a spiritual lesson that I will never forget. ...
Czubaj references that Sapkowski utilizes Bakhtin’s theory of the carnival (carnivalesque) versus grotesque realism (grotesque body), which aims to degrade abstract, spiritual, noble, and ideal concepts into a material level. This idea of the carnival versus grotesque body is perhaps what helped ...
Some words, however, absolutely need change, as being altogether obsolete; others, more numerous, have been slowly passing into a different, often into a lower or a narrower meaning, and are therefore no longer what they once were, adequate renderings of the original....
It’s sad enough that most won’t comprehend or be able to appreciate ” all those words ” and will fall back on their bibles to misinterpret the true meaning of their religion. After all, WWJD concerning animal abuse and the slaughterhouses that welcome billions of animals in their “...