An Inconsolable Demand: Lament, Desire, Hope What if we defined lament not as the mourning of a loss, but the refusal to accept any consolation for that loss? Matthew Stanley • Theology
"The Island" by Walton Ford (Triptych) When liberation isn't liberating What happens when the injunction to be free has become the inner message of power? Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
When the trumpet sounds, oh may I then in him be found. Christ in me more than myself If God loves me for Christ's sake, doesn't it mean that God doesn't really love me? When He looks at me, if all He sees is Christ, then how am I seen? Matthew Stanley • Christianity
"Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" by Miroslaw Trochanowski (2019, acrylic on wood) Secularism, a failed theology The theological roots of modernity are taken for granted, but Blumenberg argues that the secular notions which define modernity are not secularized theological concepts, but rather secular attempts to answer theological questions. Matthew Stanley • Christianity
"Almayer's Folly" by Rene Magritte (1951) Transitional discourses and getting (un-)stuck What happens when our transitional object stick around to long? And could certain discourses serve the role of something like a transitional object in people's lives in the broader process of their becoming? Matthew Stanley • Buddhism
"A Solitude" by John Caple Against personal salvation, or why you should go to church We are commanded to love one another, but how can we keep this command without an other to love? Matthew Stanley • Christianity
