Advent[ures] in Incarnation [1] | A Serious Man | Incarnation as A Comic God...
So the season of Advent comes around again. The waiting, the cold bite of the wind, the familiar carols reheated. Hopes and fears. It’s my favourite time of year, I think, partly because the event of...
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The first window on the calendar opens. The scene begins… As I wrote in the previous post, one of the fascinating things about the Incarnation is that it stands as an actual interruption, a marked...
View ArticleAdvent[ures] in #Incarnation [4] | God Looks From the Distorting Human...
Whenever we engage ‘the other’ we have to overcome our fear of doing so. Engagement that holds no such fear is not engagement with an ‘other’; it is easy to love what is lovely – we are called to...
View ArticleThe Monk and The Academic: How to be Happy
Interesting piece in The Times yesterday about the meeting of two of the happiest men in the world. Well, one of them – the monk Matthieu Ricard - is apparently the happiest (on average, surely – I...
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