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Continue reading →: Visions of a Satanic JesusHere is a series of dark images I have come across over the years featuring a Satanic Jesus, whom many of you would know as the Anti-Christ.
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Continue reading →: Mysteries Verses Secrets: The Humbling Path To The UnknowableMy practice is focussed on the mysteries of God far more than the secrets of God. What’s the difference? A secret is something knowable, but known to only a few insiders. By way of contrast, a mystery is something that’s remains unknowable even when revealed. In practice it is like…
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Continue reading →: The Tree for the Cross: A Poem by Colin MoffettTHE TREE FOR THE CROSS by Colin Moffett I stood in the forest growing so strong From all of my companions I was numbered among They picked me out as the rough barked tree To crucify the Saviour of men on the hard wood of me I felt each blow…
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Continue reading →: A hymn for the God of the moonGod of the Moon A hymn from the Carmina Gadelica God of the moon, God of the sun, God of the globe, God of the stars, God of the waters, the land, and the skies, Who ordained to us the King of promise. It was Mary fair who went upon…
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Continue reading →: War is not a solution for terrorismHoward Zinn once observed, “If a bomb is deliberately dropped on a house or a vehicle on the grounds that a “suspected terrorist” is inside . . . , the resulting deaths of women and children may not be intentional. But neither are they accidental. The proper description is “inevitable.”…
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Continue reading →: Three ways we can fall into judgmentalismThree ways we can fall into judgmentalism. We can judge God. This is the way of self justification. We can judge others. This is the way of self righteousness. We can judge ourselves. This is the way of self condemnation.
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Continue reading →: The visionary art of the Rothschild CanticlesThe Rothschild Canticles is one of the most unusual illuminated manuscripts to have survived from the Middle Ages. The text was made around 1300 to serve as an aid to mystical devotions in which images played as central a role as the written word. Visionary depictions of the Trinity, the…
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Continue reading →: Art inspired by the book of JobIn the slideshow below I have put together a collection of images inspired by the book of Job. In the book of Job, we find questions about God’s justice and why good people suffer. No answers are given, but God reminds us to trust God’s wisdom and character.
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Continue reading →: Visions of a Meditating JesusMeditation is not as foreign to Christianity as many think. Meditation is mentioned frequently in the book of Psalms for instance, though notably the focus of the psalmists is much more on the who than the how of it, as is typical of Jewish and Christian practice. What follows is…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts which words can’t expressFrom the Sayings of the Desert Fathers: One day Abba Arsenius consulted an old Egyptian monk about his own thoughts. Someone noticed this and said to him, ‘Abba Arsenius, how is it that you with such a good Latin and Greek education ask this peasant about your thoughts?’ He replied,…
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