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The Christian story is that God is both immanent and transcendent, both intimately with us and ontologically “other.” Because this is clearly paradoxical, the tendency is often to focus exclusively on one aspect or the other, on either making God so “here” that all mystery is dissolved into familiar human categories or so “other” that God becomes so remote and disconnected from human beings as to be non-existent.
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Simone Weil’s “The Need for Roots” describes the human need for rootedness through one’s involvement in “a community which preserves in living shape certain particular treasures of the past and certain particular expectations for the future.” Writing this book in the midst of World War II, Weil was reflecting on the uprooting taking place...
Civil service now so powerful it is running the country in the stead of MPs, while relying on the hard-graft of the private sector to pay its wages and pensions of course, writes Rupert Lowe.
My father passed away twenty-one years ago this week. In this essay, I remember the man who taught me to think, to question, to explore, to doubt . . . and only then to believe.