
What if the fear you’ve been taught to feel toward God was never about punishment at all — but about who you’d become without Him? Julian of Norwich’s vision of a God who clothes and encloses us in tender love meets a harder question underneath it: whether a person can be wounded so deeply…

What does the company we keep do to the soul? Drawing on Paesius of the desert, the friendship of David and Jonathan, and the ruin of Samson, this reflection traces the relational gravity that pulls us toward God or away from him — and asks what it means to borrow the faith of another…