Comment

“This turn to the normative—not will we survive but should we—has marked something more than a Silicon Valley parlour game.” Anne Snyder on the advent of the anti-human. comment.org/awake-o-sleepe…

“Forgetting is our counter-apocalypse. We attempt to secure our eternal blessedness by evading the reality of who we are.” bit.ly/4rZ40kx

“We give our children our deepest longings—the world as we wish it were, the world we cannot actualize.” comment.org/an-eschatology…

“We want to forget God’s gaze, God’s covenant, and the earth that communicates it to us. But forgetting is just another childish fantasy. Optimization is just amnesia.” Rhody Walker-Lenow on why we keep rewriting the flood story. bit.ly/4rZ40kx

“A worldview with a truncated range of vision is useless by definition. The “size” of one’s world is the principal test of a worldview. A perspective commends itself by exerting great explanatory power.” bit.ly/4lb2PMI

”The church often does not know what to do with a believer who is enduring a season of doubt.“ Ryan Cochran on divine hiddenness and friendship with God. bit.ly/409jSFx

In honour of Patocka's death on this day in 1977, here's an essay I wrote about heresy and dissidence in his work: All Things Come to Be Through Strife The latest from @commentmag comment.org/all-things-com…

“If affirming the value of a human future now requires a caveat, what else have those with the power to set the terms begun to doubt?” comment.org/awake-o-sleepe…

A great essay at @commentmag: "As people wash up on the empty shores of postmodernity, their desire for meaning remains, and they are profoundly disaffected by their wanderings." — Andrew P.W. Bennett comment.org/truth-revealin…

“Welcome to this issue of Comment. Across a wide range of genres and domains, our authors attend to the places where the pressure feels greatest today, and perhaps always has.” Anne Snyder on the advent of the anti-human. comment.org/awake-o-sleepe…

“Why would God give me the task of preaching about the hinge of all history without the heart to care about it?” Ryan Cochran on divine hiddenness and friendship with God. bit.ly/46LagVf

“What we must never say is that the teachings of Jesus are to be received and obeyed only within reasonable limits.” bit.ly/4lb2PMI

“I’ve come to think of the diorama as a visible record of what commodity culture conceals to keep us focused on consumption, things like absence and extinction, or the grief of a wounded creation.” bit.ly/4rCfY3O

“Our authors look for the traces that refuse to disappear, for moments when the fullness of the human breaks through our cultural despair, not by escaping suffering, but by bearing it in ways that transfigure the bruise of betrayal.” bit.ly/3Z3Iy1J

“The church often does not know what to do with a believer who is enduring a season of doubt.” bit.ly/409jSFx

@carleolson @CatholicSmark This piece by @millinerd is one of the best on Merton's struggles and fall - taking on moderns who excuse or downplay it all, and then carrying the story through. It's good. comment.org/mertons-nurse/

“The person who believes the Christian message must believe and be able to articulate why the Christian faith is an invitation to a bigger, not smaller, world—and it must be a faith that is livable in the world.” bit.ly/4lb2PMI

“I was attempting to lead our congregation through crisis while grasping for something to hold on to in my personal faith. When I most needed God to act and show his face, he remained hidden.” Ryan Cochran on God's divine hiddenness. bit.ly/409jSFx

“Claiming that something is true means claiming that it invites us to see the world more fully.” Matt Burdette on enduring the cross of contradiction. bit.ly/4lb2PMI

“No one enjoys being laughed at. But bearing ridicule may be the kind of foolishness that is consistent with the cross. If we can allow it, mockery can become a kind of small apocalypse.” bit.ly/4aUmxb9