I'm a big architecture nerd. I love the grandeur of great buildings and how their styles can teach us something about goodness, truth, and beauty: from the expansive, encompassing rounded arches and domes of Byzantine basilicas that give us the sense of being embraced by the cosmos; to Gothic Cathedrals, whose long vertical lines and … Continue reading My Body is a Temple
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God. So begins Psalm 48, a stirring hymn of praise to God — not the distant God of the philosophers or even the cosmic God of the theologians, but the God who dwelled right there, with and among God’s people. As … Continue reading The City of our God (A reflection on Ps 48)
A friend of mine tells a story that has stuck with me for twenty years now. A kindly older gentleman came into the store where she worked during her summer vacations in university and asked after a certain product. Unfortunately for my friend, her customer spoke with a thick Scottish brogue and she couldn’t understand … Continue reading Two Ways of Thinking about Religion (Languages of God, Part I)
Over the past seven months, I’ve been exploring the Values in Action (VIA) character strengths through the lens of Christian faith and how they are all examples of the kind of “good fruit” our lives are called to produce. The goal of the series has been to broaden our perspective on what a good life … Continue reading Abundant Life
Last week, I concluded the series on character strengths as good spiritual fruit by talking about love. One of the questions that comes up often in talk about love is the question of self-love. If love is about transcending the barrier between two people and living for the other, then surely the love of self is … Continue reading …As Yourself
