on incarnation and sacrifice
But supposing God became a man – suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God’s nature in one person – then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and...
View Articlecapital children’s choir – shake it out
Capital Children’s Choir tribute to Florence And The Machine – “Shake it Out” Orchestrated, arranged and directed by Rachel Santesso Drum Coach: Nick Marangoni, Recorded and mixed by Andrew Dudman at...
View Articlelove is stronger than death
Filed under: love, revolutionaries, spirit, uncanny, violence Tagged: christ, compassion, death, grace, jesus, kenosis, mystery, myth, sacred heart, sacrifice
View Articledesmond tutu condemns uganda’s proposed new anti-gay law
“We must be entirely clear about this: the history of people is littered with attempts to legislate against love or marriage across class, caste, and race. But there is no scientific basis or genetic...
View Articlesimone weil – to accept the void
‘Tradition teaches us as touching the gods and experience shows us as regards men that, by a necessity of nature, every being invariably exercises all the power of which it is capable’ (Thucydides)....
View Articlesimone weil – detachment
Affliction in itself is not enough for the attainment of total detachment. Unconsoled affliction is necessary. There must be no consolation—no apparent consolation. Ineffable consolation then comes down. To...
View Articlesimone weil – imagination which fills the void
The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass. Every void (not accepted) produces hatred, sourness, bitterness, spite. The evil we wish for that which...
View Articlefinal scene from tarkovsky’s “stalker” (1979)
(Reading a Fyodor Tyuchev poem*, also used by Björk and Antony Hegarty HERE.) *Please watch from 2:33 into the clip – the embedding function has been disabled by the copyright holder.Filed under:...
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