faith

  • And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?(The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats) (an old article that I found actual nowadays, in 2025 – this is a translation of my article, written in Romanian, December 20, 2016) The Twitches of the Electric Eye The seasonal consumerist whims of

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  • Prolegomena for an uncomfortable exercise In Matthew 15:14, Jesus, the carpenter from a dusty little village in northern ancient Israel, just had a confrontation with the Pharisees and scribes who had come all the way from Jerusalem. When his disciples expressed some concerns that their teacher had offended these highly respected intellectual elites, Jesus responded:

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  • The loneliness of God

    The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Poor Old Shakespeare. The Book of Job, in On Lying in Bed and other Essays, Bayeux Arts, Calgary, 2000, p. 172) Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not

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