The Theos Project

Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual Puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world ...

Some speak of meditation as being a practice that brings us into awareness with our "true self." The idea of a true self seems tri...

The novel for next month is George Orwell's 1984 . I read Animal Farm in the context of attending a private, Christian (evangelical) hi...

I am going to deliberately confuse my translation of Paul: "Knowing that a person is not dikaioutai through the works of the law but o...

Thus far in my novel project, I have not yet encountered a novel that illustrates so tragically the brokenness of a single individual. In Vl...

I just finished my reading of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita . It was better than I had expected, more powerful and even (dare I say it...

Speaking in tongues. Ecstatic prayers. Calm assurance. Visions. Revelations. What to make of religious experience. Neurosis, psychosis, or p...

As far as I understand, most contemporary theories of education understand that there are different learning styles and different learners. ...

We find Alice tired and bored. Sitting on the bank on a hot day, she wants nothing to do with her sister’s book; it has no pictures or conve...

Generosity and giving can result in a certain power over others. Such was the gist of Jean Vanier’s comments in his interview with Krist Tip...

Of late, my faith, my pilgrimage, seems to have been taking me in the general direction of creativity and imagination. I am starting to awak...

Okay, here's a quickie....uhm....I mean, a quick post. I came across a blog by Julie Clawson, Why N.T. Wright is Wrong about Social Medi...