I’ve got to start reading David Zahl’s Low Anthropology. The more grounded our view of human nature, the more empathetic and compassionate we can be toward others (and ourselves).
I’ve got to start reading David Zahl’s Low Anthropology. The more grounded our view of human nature, the more empathetic and compassionate we can be toward others (and ourselves).
Popular culture and social media has made failure into a status symbol, but usually presents failing as an egalitarian stepping stone to entail success. Almost like a rite of passage. David Zahl points out that this cultural tendency to gloss over failure as a stepping stone to success short-changes the suffering of those who fail, …
David Zahl on grace in marriage from his book Seculosity. Real love is not something we decide on. Nor is it something we earn. Love is more than something we fall into; it is something we fail into. What sounds like a somewhat more tragic view of life is actually a starting point for compassion, …
It interests me watching modern evangelicalism struggle more and more about what to do with Easter. Good Friday was a spiritual pause, a pause that lasted until the acknowledgment of resurrection on Sunday morning. Now any thought of pause seems something to be avoided and Good Friday seems to be identical to Easter Sunday. How …
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