Author: Tim

• Dorothy Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning

  That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology. It is a kind of behavior to which the present climate of opinion is wholly favorable. Bishops air their opinions about economics; biologists, about metaphysics; inorganic chemists, about theology; the most irrelevant…

• The Liturgy of Fathers

  God walked in Eden in the cool of the day. A Father ventures into the son’s world to enjoy his son’s work from that day.  The father, now resting from his own work, the garden,  loves to see how his son’s work adds to it.  The son lives inside his father’s work, while adding his…

• The World Behind The Bush

  In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.   But Adam created the world,  when he crept behind the bush to hide from God.  This was the first moment when a mortal chose a place where God is not, and created that place in the instant of so choosing it  — the diabolical…

• Purgation Visits In The Night

  Are you weary yet? I am. Then rest. I don’t know how to rest. Then die. I don’t know how to die. Just love your friends. I have no friends. Then you’re not weary yet.

• Rene Girard on Mousetrap Atonement

  …Origin and many of the Greek fathers elaborated a thesis that played a great role as the first centuries of Christianity unfolded, that of Satan duped by the Cross. Satan means the same in this formulation as those St. Paul names as the “princes of this world.” In Western Christianity this thesis has not met…

• Gregory Nazianzen: “Quod non assumpsit, non sanavit”

  “What He did not assume, He did not heal.” Gregory Nazianzen, -letter to Cledonius Cappadocian response to Appollonarian Christology, which tried to solve the problem of the unity of the Incarnate Logos by omitting the humanity.

• The Moment the Bottom Fell Out

  And when,that evening near that summer’s end,on sun-warmed stone of the old church steps,you spoke of larger rooms within my inner silencewhere the word of God is never silent, yetmidsummer forever.

• Notes From Dreams

  “I thirst.” We thought He said: “O send someone to dip a finger in the spring and cool my tongue.” There was a sponge, a javelin, and vinegar there. He turned His swollen tongue away. We saw that instant what deep and spanless gulfs we listened across. 2. I saw the high priest standing as…

• Low Church Credo

  He is nothing you can see or feel, He is nothing you can paint on a board, He is nothing to be broken or poured, He is nothing our mistakes can kill.

• That There Are Multiple Darknesses

  Man is called into existence by the word of God,  so God’s first impingement on his cognition has describable shape.   For some individuals, later, there is contact with God the Spirit, and through this process the man moves from one epistemological universe to another, since each Trinitarian person, being a person, exudes a unique…