Archive for the ‘Cross(es)’ Category

December 29, 2009 1

Simone Weil and the Whiskey Priest: A Spirituality of Suffering

By Robert Minto in Cross(es), Gospel, Motivation, Obligation, Suffering

Simone Weil’s two letters on the subject of baptism, to be found in the opening pages of her famous “Waiting for God,” remind me — in certain ignoble places — of my own history with the sacrament. At one point, Weil allows a backgrounding fear to break through her reasoning:
The mere thought that, supposing I [...]

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September 20, 2009 2

Why Protestants Should Value Mary

By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Cross(es), Death

We Protestants enjoy asserting the ordinariness of Mary (the mother of Jesus), her humanity, the sinfulness we assume to be her natural portion. Riding on the (diminishing but powerful) tide of Reformation politics, we mostly avoid meditating on the person of Mary as distinct from other people, instead preferring to meditate upon her as similar [...]

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