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 A. Stanley • Theology
No one is totally lost One way to see grace might be the power to create new and unexpected timelines. Matthew A. 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 A. 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 A. Stanley • Theology
An illustration by the hand of Albert Tissandier Becoming your own teacher No teacher can give us what we are looking for, because a teacher can only communicate knowledge, not the original intuition from which that knowledge arose. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
"American Landscape" by Edward Hopper (1920) An Ox-Herder without his ox The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures mirror something of the Hero’s Journey, but they also include a bit more Lacanian honesty than Campbell’s popular monomyth. Matthew A. Stanley • Buddhism
