Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
What does pornography have in common with a carnival mask?
Last time I was talking about imagination and fantasy — how imagination enables us to see beyond what is present to our physical senses, enabling us to be creative beings… co-creators with God — and how this can also be misdirected, enabling us to live in a fantasy which has an ever-diminishing connection with Reality… eventually separating us from God.
So imagination can be an… [ read more ]
Fr Barnabas Powell comments on our FtFtL podcast…
Our modern society has become so confused about the depth and profound beauty of the human person, and this confusion has increased the amount of destructive tendencies in our lives together. The FtFtL podcast is not just a remedy for this poverty but a deeply Orthodox understanding of a healthy person created in God’s image. As someone who has benefited from the work done in preparation for this… [ read more ]
If fantasy is “pornography of the mind”, does that mean we shouldn’t read Lord of the Rings?
Seeing the title: you might say, what? Is he saying that all imagination and fantasy is pornographic? Well — what do we think about imagination? Have a quick look through your Bible or in the ascetic Fathers for something about the imagination and you may be surprised. There’s a good chance you won’t find the word “imagination” in… [ read more ]
