7.17.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 13, "Herewith is the fend overcome."

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"Herewith is the fend overcome." In Chapter 13 of Julian's Revelations we reach her fifth showing, Satan overcome by the bloo...
7.16.2026

Harder To Talk About God

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I was visiting with one of our majors yesterday, and the conversation turned toward Christology and Jesus' agony in the garden. How are ...
7.15.2026

A Proof for the Authenticity of Faith

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The epigraph of my book The Authenticity of Faith , from which the title of the book comes, is a quote from Abraham Joshua Heschel:  It has ...
7.14.2026

Theology Is Its Own Apologetics: Henri de Lubac and the Shape of Joy

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I've started reading Jordan Hillebert book Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence . As I've written about before, de Lubac...
7.13.2026

"I Shall Be Love": The Mystical Heart of Thérèse of Lisieux's Little Way

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Longtime readers will know that I have a particular devotion to Thérèse of Lisieux. Encountering Thérèse's Little Way was a decisive mom...
7.10.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 12, "His dearworthy blood descended down into Hell and broke the bonds"

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"His dearworthy blood descended down into Hell and broke the bonds" Through eleven chapters Julian has shared three of her showing...
7.09.2026

"Judas, Peter" by Lucy Shaw

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"Judas, Peter" by Lucy Shaw Because we are all betrayers, taking silver, and eating body and blood, and asking (guilty) is it ...
7.08.2026

The Stop and the Go: The Impingement of God Upon Human Consciousness

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In The Book of Love I describe how the cross is a theophany, marking no change in the life of God but a revelation of how God has always an...
7.07.2026

The Parable of the Tradition-Maxxer and the Non-Denominational Protestant

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And Jesus also told this parable to some who trusted in the superiority of their tradition and regarded other Christians with contempt: ...
7.06.2026

On Tradition-Maxxing

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On Substack Notes I coined a term: tradition-maxxing . I came up with the term after reading the viral essay I've Been Orthodox for Ove...
7.03.2026

Al Shall Be Wele: Chapter 11, "Se I am God; se I am in al thing"

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"Se I am God; se I am in al thing" In Chapter 11 we begin to enter into some of the thornier aspects of Julian's thought. Agai...
7.02.2026

Loving to the End

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The Gospels describe Jesus’ final words in different ways. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark describe a cry of abandonment: “My God, my God, w...
7.01.2026

The Disenchantment Death Spiral: The Immanence Feedback Loop

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In 2022, I wrote a series about how churches unintentionally disenchant themselves through habits of speech and practice. Since then, I'...
6.30.2026

Rethinking the Fall: Ancestral Sin Versus Original Sin

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In The Slavery of Death I introduce readers to the Orthodox vision of "Ancestral Sin" as opposed to the vision known as "Ori...