Fear or Love? If we have received perfect love from God, how can we remain fearful? Has not fear been cast out? When we act from love, we give to others the power to no longer be fearful, for they have received the type of love which casts out fear. Matthew Stanley • Theology
When the Pope anathematized the teachings of St. Augustine How did the crypto-Catholic Jacques Lacan give us the Calvinist Slavoj Žižek? And could St. Augustine's theology be the key? Matthew Stanley • Theology
Edvard Munch, Death at the Helm, 1893, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway. The rich young man in Jesus' clinic To be able to concretely love people, we must learn to partner with the mystery of change, to summon its appearance, come what may, and to diligently dance whichever conjuring ritual we happen to have stumbled upon ourselves. Matthew Stanley • Theology
No one is totally lost One way to see grace might be the power to create new and unexpected timelines. Matthew Stanley • Theology
Can you measure spiritual progress? The idea of assessing your spiritual progress will get you laughed at, and that's a damn shame. Matthew Stanley • Christianity
"The Last Word" (1967) by Rene Magritte Why Truth is a Person Whatever the truth might be, Hegel contends, it cannot be something like an artifact which can be taken up at will or a formula which may be rehearsed. Matthew Stanley • Theology
