When I was a kid, I’d watch a lot of home renovation shows on television. And while it was always played up for the camera, I loved the moments when they’d pull back some ugly old carpeting to discover beautiful hardwood floors underneath, or when their concern about rot or termites would be revealed to … Continue reading The Soul is Like God in Nature
A recurring theme on this blog over the years has been the idea that we need to find better ways of talking about sin. So much of the doom-and-gloom, fire-and-brimstone language surrounding it arose in the Early Modern period and is not only counter-productive and off-putting, but also misrepresents the fullness of what the Scriptures … Continue reading On God and Sin(ners): A Reflection on Romans 5.1-11 and Julian of Norwich
Prayer is a strange thing. It can take on so many different colours. There is repentance, there is thanksgiving, there is worship, contemplation, petition and intercession. All of these (and others) have their own motivation, and yet they are all recognizable as prayer. We might broadly define prayer as simply ‘relating with God’, whether with … Continue reading The Foundation of Prayer
We’re nearing the end of this significant chunk of Julian’s Revelations of Divine Love dealing with the immensity of God’s love and the comparative insignificance of sin. Yesterday, we saw how we must remember that God’s love and peace live within us and, therefore, we are called to live within God’s love and peace accordingly. … Continue reading A Matter of Perspective: On Love, Sin, and Repentance
Yesterday we saw how Julian understood sin to be a result of a lack of awareness of God and, consequently, of love. Like the proverbial fish unaware it’s swimming in water, all too often we go through life unaware of the reality before us. Today I’d like to expand on this idea, drawing from Julian’s further … Continue reading Abiding in Peace and Love
Matthew Root 