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No Longer Carved in Stone: Augustine of Hippo and Love as God’s One Law (Lectio Divina)
What if the law you can’t seem to keep was never meant to be kept from outside at all? Augustine insists something was written into you long before you ever tried, and failed, to obey a command pressed on you from without.
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The Love That Cannot Be Hoarded: Augustine of Hippo on Loving Neighbor and God (Lectio Divina)
What if the love you offer your neighbor was never something you generated on your own? Augustine insists that the very love binding you to another person is the same love that is God — and holding onto it as though it were yours to keep might cost you the ability to love at…
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Awakened by Love: Christ’s Yes, Our Yes, and the Sleep We Leave Behind (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thomas Keating’s image of waking from sleep, this Lectio Divina reflects on Christ as the perfect and unwavering yes to the Father — and on how, through Christ joining himself to us, his yes becomes our own. A meditation on spiritual slumber, the dubious comfort of darkness, and the love that gently…