Might the Silence Sing?
O Lover, In my initial engagement with the spirituality of Juan de la Cruz thirty years ago I became enamored by the theme of apophática (“imagelessness”). I subsequently found myself gleaning from his writings...
Monthly Archive: August 2025
The Problem of the Personal
O You, Finally, Beyond Names, At about the two-thirds juncture of my life I began addressing You primarily in the second grammatical person as “Lover.” I did this having reached a tipping point regarding...
How Large Is My “Yes”?
O Lover, One of the formative issues in my faith journey is captured by the title of J. B. Phillips’ Your God Is Too Small (1953) which I first read in college. Insofar as...