Joshua Whitfield
March 8, 2020
It’s a common custom, among some, to take up a little extra reading in Lent—something different, something spiritual, something to open the mind and the heart. I do this; I try at least to read something good for the soul, something different, something I’ve not read before or not for a long time. It’s good for […]
March 6, 2020
“Alas, poor man! is the celestial glory of so small esteem with him, that he counteth it not worth running the hazards of a few difficulties to obtain it?” -John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
March 1, 2020
Simone Weil, that strange and beautiful philosopher, simply called it “attention.” That was the key to the heart of things for her; “attention,” the mark of genuine Christianity, genuine philosophy, genuine religion. It was, for her, the only way to open oneself to the divine, everything else being something of a sham. “The quality of attention […]
February 28, 2020
Maybe there just aren’t saints anymore. Maybe there never were.