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
Untitled. (Ausgrabung eines überdimensionalen Totenkopfes), 1911 by Fritz Janowski Radioactive Love Like a radioactive substance, Love is leaking into the world from the porous walls of the Church, leaving everything irreparably changed. Matthew Stanley • Christianity
"Pandemonium" by John Martin (1841) Do you believe in evil? To lose evil is also to lose good – at least, a certain conception of good. Matthew Stanley • Theology
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