Discovering the freedom in finitude

A working journal for psychoanalytic theory and religious living

Esoteric Speech in St. Paul

Paul provides us with a model for how he approaches modulating his speech depending on his audience's level of spiritual maturity.

Religion isn't for you

What if the power of religion lies not in what is authentic or personal about it, but precisely in its capacity to make us feel strange and alienated from ourselves? The wastefulness of worship makes us modern religious folk deeply uncomfortable because it seems out of place in the recent

Worship

What died on the cross

In the wake of the cross, we now have to grapple with who God has revealed Himself to be, laying waste to all the games we used to play around Him.

Theology

Everything done in darkness

When we see the one who wields power, we must see someone ensnared in a myriad invisible deals with their terms penned in blood.

Biographical

Losing your field and becoming illegible

I've been experiencing a gradual weakening of my bonds with those fields which once gave shape to my life through their fantasies, discourse, and transferential relations.