Christian contemplation thrown into the muddy highways of the world : encouragement : experiences : resources
You’d think that, if human beings were reasonable, the way we manage our home would correspond to the account we make of how the home functions. But when it comes to our common home, this isn’t the case. Etymologically, “ecology” means words about or an account of the oikos, the home. “Economics” means the laws …
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Randy Woodley, Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days Reconnecting with Sacred Earth (Minneapolis, MN: Broadleaf Books, 2022). As I announced at the beginning of Lent, I have taken on the project of reading one short two-page chapter (or reflection) from Indigenous Christian Randy Woodley’s book Becoming Rooted, first as part of a Laudato Si’ Lent but …
There are many passages in Scripture that give us pause. Sometimes this happens because we don’t initially understand what is being said. Other times it happens because we misunderstand what is being said. In yet other cases, this happens because we do in fact understand what is being said. One of the most arresting passages …
I asked the good Jesus that we may partake of Lent as and with him: these forty days in the desert, given by him solely to contemplation. What could be the activity of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in his most holy soul, in this human rest, in this solitude? Our Lent will not …
In the Incarnation, God became vulnerable. He took on vulnerability which he didn’t have otherwise. The Humanity of Jesus introduced this feature of divine love, by letting the vulnerability of material creatureliness have a share in the Godhead. This is how we normally speak. But is it actually right? Does it manifest the truth about …
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Contemplative in the Mud 