It is difficult to know what to say about Erich Fromm, especially in a short piece such as this. He seems to me to be a total outlier in...

I found this quote in a book given to me by my friend and brother Andre: “Memoirs of the Saints” by Dr Bankey Behari (2nd ed. 1965). The...

I thought for many years that the beseeching or begging mode of prayer was the best and only one. This kind of prayer is represented in...

This is a challenging quote, and one that the relentless positivity of the modern age would have you dismiss without so much as a...

It's a challenge to write a blog post about a scene where words become unnecessary. But in fact it's only explanations that are surplus...

One important technique in New Scripture is the bending and stretching of the narratives of religion so as to present other plausible...

This quote may seem a little disorienting, because it requires us to imagine a character so clement that they suffer from a surfeit of...

The Word and the Power is a recurrent motif in my writing, although I still only have a dim view of what its significance might be. In...

I recently decided to publish something from my back catalogue: Selah! Loving the Psalms. It should make its way to Amazon soon, in...