Back in 2020 I wrote a series I called “Sanctified Imagination,” which was all about not just the acceptability of using the imagination in the life of faith, but the importance and even necessity of doing so. I felt so strongly about it that I reposted the series intact in 2023. As I wrote in … Continue reading Soul Speech: In Defense of Imagination
Alleluia! Christ is risen! I hope you all had a blessed Lent, impactful Holy Week, and beautiful Easter. My Lent was excellent, but between writing daily posts here, a busy time at work, and having the great medieval theologian St. Bonaventure as my Lenten companion, it was also very ‘heady’. And there’s nothing wrong with … Continue reading Soul Speech: Introduction
Alleluia! Christ is risen! We’ve spent this whole Lenten and Holy Week Season reflecting on prayers and hymns of the Church. Today on this most sacred and special day of the year, I can think of no better set of hymns than the Orthodox Paschal Stichera, better known by its first line, “Let God arise!” … Continue reading Let God Arise! A Reflection for Easter 2026
Holy Saturday is a strange day in Holy Week. For there is no story to tell. It’s the day in Holy Week when nothing happens. Jesus is dead and buried. But we’re still a day away from the joy of Easter. If we try to put ourselves in the shoes of the disciples, it’s a … Continue reading The Most Blessed Sabbath: Prayers for Holy Saturday
Today is one of the most sacred — and certainly the most solemn — of days on the Christian calendar, the day known in most of the English-speaking world as Good Friday. It’s the day when we commemorate Jesus’s farcical trials, beatings, crucifixion, and death. This is obviously rich theological soil for writing, but it … Continue reading Pierced, Crushed, Wounded: Prayers for Good Friday
Matthew Root 