A Common Place Blog

'...attaching the individual self to a fixed definition of a group self - and the group definition subsequently becoming entrenched - ca...

'To fear God is to no longer assert self. To fear God is to give up not only the need to master all threats but the drive to know all an...

'...in God's world, enjoyment is a clue to reality's deepest, brightest secret: that the universe is the gleeful invention of un...

'You are depressed because you have every reason to be depressed. No member of the other two million species which inhabit the earth - a...

'The modern objective consciousness will go to any length to prove that it is not unique in the Cosmos, and by this effort establishes i...

'God has made us cosmic misfits.' Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happine...

'One of the disconcerting aspects of middle age was the realization that most of the crises which happened to other people also ultimate...

'Trauma in reponse to disaster often stems from the unbiblical fiction that the world is, and ought to be experienced as, all right. To ...

 'When the Blessed Virgin, having given birth, looked into this face, she enjoyed a privilege no woman or man had known since Adam and E...

'Theology teaches that God's hands were never more active than when fastened to the wood of the tree, "puntured by nails",...