Angels on Amphetamines: “The split between the Christian Right and the Nietzschean Right is partly about whether today’s problems stem from an absence of the restraining force of Christianity’s moral framework, or an absence of the passion and vigor that it seeks to restrain. The unfortunate reality, I think, is that the constraints of morality…
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ຟēēkēຖ໓ liຖkŞ: Unflesh, Fire, Friends
And Did Those Feet? “So much of the Christian life is fire. The minute you begin to look inward you quail before the amount of work to do, and this ‘unseen warfare,’ as the Orthodox East refers to it, is the work of the Christian life.” The Evolving Animals of the Music of Our Words:…
Numinosum
New Paul Levy post: Instead of cursing our brokenness (or our abusers), we can recognize it as a numinous event, an archetypal creative and potentially redemptive moment that seeks to make us participants in a divine, eternal happening. The Biblical Jacob suffering for the rest of his life from a wounded hip as a…