Imagine two kinds of people who live passionately: The first type live lives of wild freedom. They hold onto everything lightly, knowing no single thing comes with a guarantee. Yet they believe that life itself is good and beautiful. They are fully present in the moment, open to caring for […]
The ways that most of us gather information these days keep us “grazing on the same side of the fence.” We read or watch thinkers and commentators who reinforce our own somewhat entrenched positions. If we do peek over the fence, it might be to mock the laughable stupidity of […]
Ever since John of the Cross immortalized a certain kind of spiritual crisis in a poem called “Dark Night of the Soul,” people have used that term to refer to a time when it has particularly felt that God has been absent and unreachable. When I think of the darkest […]