Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
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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 ]
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 ]
A prayer by St Nikolai Velimirovich used in the 6th session of the FtFtL pastoral program “Forgiving and Forgiven”:
Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them. Enemies have driven me into Your embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world. Enemies have made me a stranger in worldly realms and… [ read more ]
