Being Human

This age of anarchy and autonomy denies all forms of unity. It lauds the rejection of "organized religion" as an enlightened, sensible, even pious action. It praises those who are "spiritual" while rabidly attacking those who are "religious." Yet religion is nothing more than the exterior expression of interior spirituality. It is the acknowlegement of the inadequacy of our common humanity in terms of common truth about a shared reality under a common God. It takes much humility to admit that, while our individuality is precious, we are not so very isolated and exclusive as we sometimes seem to think.

revitalizing

so i see it has been a little while since i posted. i shall remedy that.

i have been on a flannery o'connor prose kick, so the blog shall, too. the new quote is, i think, the heart of everything, not just theology but philosophy and art and beauty and the whole bit. because, if It isn't real, if He is not truly present, than it is all meaningless, and art means nothing. as o'connor consistently insists, art must be incarnational, and He is the epitome of Incarnation, the pattern of all our feeble efforts. i am sure that even michelangelo et al. were not able to reproduce the visions they saw in their minds . . .