What is the soul? It is not the ghost in the machine of our bodies. This is the soul. Read on. It's dense, but I paraphrase after. From Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History by Eugene Webb ,,, If we consider that human existence is constituted as a tension of longing or striving toward conscious participation in reality and [...]
Dear Ink Desk Readers, I thought you might like my videos for my Homeschool Connections courses. Here's the whole playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6nwcq2gOwaDvobs-AYEr0Csmh7BjjuI7. You can watch all of them by clicking "play all" but the first one is probably the best. They're all pretty short. And be sure to sign your kids or grandkids up for Homeschool Connections!
There's a Life Magazine special issue out about Mary. At the end of the main article, the writer laments, "If only we had a simply human Mary, that would be enough." My reaction: We do have a simply human Mary. No orthodox Christian has ever believed or taught that Mary is anything other than human. So [...]
SCTV's Bobby Bitman used to say, "As a comic, in all seriousness". Perhaps I should say, "As an actor, in all sincerity ..." because, of course, acting is the opposite of sincerity in the same way that comedy is the opposite of seriousness. But that's not really true. Good acting is authentic or sincere at a [...]
Yesterday Rod Dreher posted an article on pornography on his site. He begins it with this ... Whenever I go to a Christian college to speak, I talk to professors, staffers, and campus ministers about what they’re seeing among the students. Two things always come up: 1) far too many of their students know next to [...]
Recently a friend of mine asked me what I thought of Fr. Richard Rohr, and I dismissed him with some sort of comment such as, "Oh, Rohr's books are tea table twaddle." And, according to Dan Burke, there are, apparently, concerns about Rohr's orthodoxy. But, while researching something else on the internet, I came upon a link [...]
John Henry Newman on a problem he noticed roughly 200 years ago ... It is very much the fashion at present to regard the Saviour of the world in an irreverent and unreal way—as a mere idea or vision ... [offering] vague statements about His love ... [and] while the thought of Christ is but a [...]
I became an atheist at age 9. I became Catholic (of all things!) 30 years later. This, after hating Catholics most of my life and agreeing with all of my artistic and theatrical friends that the Catholic Church was ridiculous at best, contemptuous at worst. But, even now 17 years after my reception into the [...]
Here's a brief outline of Eric Voegelin's lecture "In Search of the Ground", with quotations. I. THE GROUND (Greek: αἴτιον) is the source of our being and our particularity (THE GROUND is GOD, viewed as a philosophical concept and not as a Person.) There the quest of the ground has been formulated in two principal [...]
In his sermon "The Christian Ministry", Bl. John Henry Newman lays out for us a possible chain of unbelief. Note that you can start this chain anywhere, but Newman starts it from the point of view of someone who doubts the Priesthood. Doubt that Christ commissioned the Apostles, and set aside a group of men as [...]
