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 ]
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 ]
Lust is the decaying body of love without its soul. How does seeing iconographically help to move us past lust and into love?
Last time I talked about the theological significance of marriage and finding the fulfilment of our deepest desires in union with God, emphasizing that our desires are not there to be killed but to be transformed — changed from desires that miss the mark and can never be sated into desires that… [ read more ]
