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Where Does A Tree Start And End: God’s Eternal Love As The Ground Of Existence (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Heidi Russell’s Rahnerian Christology, this Lectio Divina traces the cosmic arc of God’s self-communication — from the eternal intention to take on flesh, through the incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, to the crucifixion we repeat whenever we fail to see the sacred ground of our shared existence. Beginning with a meditation on…
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No Secular Moment: Karl Rahner and the Sacredness of Ordinary Experience (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Karen Kilby’s introduction to Karl Rahner, this Lectio Divina explores why there is no such thing as a secular or ordinary experience — why every moment, every relationship, and even our brokenness has its origin in God’s loving self-communication, poured out as the very life we so often take for granted.
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The Ledges We Cling To And The Holy Longing That Will Not Let Us Go (Lectio Divina)
What do a drug addict’s first high, an alcoholic’s first drunk, and the soul’s restless searching have in common? They are all, in their own way, an answer to the call of holy longing — a longing that God placed in us before we knew we had it. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of…