I just found your substack from reading your excellent article on the Journal of the Augustine Institute re: the Beatles, Shakespeare and God (I hope that wasn't a secret...).
I'm always glad to find people of faith willing to stand up to the travesty that's happening now. I have deeply commited friends in the faith community who struggle with these issues.
This line in particular struck me: "The many sources that make up the Bible somehow convey man's encounter, in history, with "the Divine Ground of our being".
This isn't the place to dissect my thoughts on the Bible (I'm a mythologist), but that line, and the concept of man's encounter with the Divine Ground of our being very much struck me as what we're missing in our culture and I wanted to thank you for writing it so beautifully. We are a culture of extremes, and I'm as dismayed at the prospect of living in an entirely secular world which discounts entirely the mystery of being as I am of living in a christo-nationalist state in which no one is allowed to do anything other than engage with the world in a religious framework (and not my religion at that).
Anyway, thank you. If you're inclined to stop by the Abbey sometime, you'd be most welcome.
I just found your substack from reading your excellent article on the Journal of the Augustine Institute re: the Beatles, Shakespeare and God (I hope that wasn't a secret...).
I'm always glad to find people of faith willing to stand up to the travesty that's happening now. I have deeply commited friends in the faith community who struggle with these issues.
This line in particular struck me: "The many sources that make up the Bible somehow convey man's encounter, in history, with "the Divine Ground of our being".
This isn't the place to dissect my thoughts on the Bible (I'm a mythologist), but that line, and the concept of man's encounter with the Divine Ground of our being very much struck me as what we're missing in our culture and I wanted to thank you for writing it so beautifully. We are a culture of extremes, and I'm as dismayed at the prospect of living in an entirely secular world which discounts entirely the mystery of being as I am of living in a christo-nationalist state in which no one is allowed to do anything other than engage with the world in a religious framework (and not my religion at that).
Anyway, thank you. If you're inclined to stop by the Abbey sometime, you'd be most welcome.