beauty

  • Beautiful. Crissy.

    Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God—what is good and is pleasing to… Continue reading

    Beautiful. Crissy.
  • A Coherent Life: Eros for the World and the Theological Vision of Etty Hillesum

    Woodhouse, Patrick. Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009. Hillesum, Etty. Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941 -1943. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. In his theological rendering of Etty Hillesum’s life, Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed, the Rev.… Continue reading

    A Coherent Life: Eros for the World and the Theological Vision of Etty Hillesum
  • On Floods and Beauty: A Gospel Reflection Two Weeks after the West Virginia Floods

    I experience great joy in listening to the spirituality of the child, in experiencing with them the discovery of life and of God. This summer some children and youth at my parish are growing a small garden, and we are… Continue reading

    On Floods and Beauty: A Gospel Reflection Two Weeks after the West Virginia Floods
  • On Beauty

    I confess I don’t know much about the subfield of theological aesthetics, but I certainly do think quite a bit about constructions of the beautiful vis-a-vis theological anthropology, specifically, the appearance of human beings, and even more specifically, the appearance… Continue reading