Monthly Archive: October 2025

[“The mystery of the Word’s descent is meant to ‘amaze’ the Soul into loss of self and perfect obedience to the Father’s will” (Bernard McGinn regarding Marguerite of Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Annihilated...

[“Hello darkness, my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again . . .” (from “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon, 1964).] [Barbara Dent, My Only Friend Is Darkness: Living the...

O Lover, A landmark theological question debated in the late Medieval and Renaissance periods was this: if  human’s “fall” had not occurred, would the Incarnation of the Christ have taken place? In other words,...