Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
Developing and expanding on the material in the podcast series, the book From Object to Icon: The Struggle for Spiritual Vision in a Pornographic World has now been published by Ancient Faith Publishing.
From Object to Icon sees pornography as a societal issue with a spiritual root, and is written to encourage all of us to learn to see iconographically rather than pornographically– that is, rather than objectifying others, to see the spiritual reality in… [ read more ]
How do we find true fulfilment? Why repentance is hope, life and joy.
Last time I mentioned that society cannot even really define what constitutes pornography, but that in seeing how pornography is a parody of iconography helps us to understand not only precisely what it is, but also why it is so destructive.
I said that a pornographic image is a parody of the icon, a demonic twisting of the goodness of the image… [ read more ]
How prevalent is pornography in our society?
In this series of podcasts, I’ve been talking a lot about the relationship between image and ultimate Reality, and about how the icon manifests to our senses a deeper, fuller, ultimate Reality that it is all too easy for us not to bring to conscious awareness. By manifesting that fuller Reality to us, the icon permits us to enter into relationship and communion with that fullness… a fullness… [ read more ]
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