Peter Bouteneff’s How to Be a Sinner took only about four hours to read, and it offered so much gentle clarity on point after point that I could not have put into words for myself. Many of the book’s insights I have learned in the past several years at an intuitive level because I have … Continue reading Learning to Be a Sinner: a Primer Requiring Only a Few Hours
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Blue: Notes on the Color of a Receptive Mind
Whatever I might have known of this before (and I do recall reading this beautiful essay among others), I have just relearned it. Blue is the color of contemplation because it is “in effect looking at darkness through light, or (we could say) from the viewpoint of light” (39). This and much more are expounded … Continue reading Blue: Notes on the Color of a Receptive Mind
Jesus and the Ancient Paths 