Ben Self
“The First Hope in Our Inventory Must Be the Hope that Love is Going to Have the Last Word.”
Nine Months of Waiting and “Getting Ready for Christmas Day”
Dialogue Won’t Heal our Deepest Divisions, but It will Humanize our Adversaries
“God Comes a Loving Bed-Fellow and Sleeps at My Side All Night”
Pain is a Physical Delight; Empathy is an Impotent Pain
“When You See Jesus in this Context, You See How Completely Bold and Aggressive He Was. He Lived in a Crowded, Angry World yet Took on all Comers.”
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it … Scapegoating, […]
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence … has, […]
He laughs. He kicks his bright spade in the earth and turns it over. – […]
Here is the final installment of a three-part series about my recent retreat at Gethsemani […]