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Pathways out of Addiction 1: How do we live?

16 June 2016 By Andrew

How do I start on the path towards finding the freedom to live without addiction? Part 1: Clarity about our aims and five ways of reorienting our lives towards freedom.

Today we’re going to start discussing how to find a path out of addiction: what steps can I take if I have an ongoing difficulty in resisting the temptation to use pornography? How can I give up the false image and find communion through the… [ read more ]

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Image and Communion

9 June 2016 By Andrew

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 ]

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Pornography and Society

2 June 2016 By Andrew

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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