Celtic Christianity

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Commitment brings freedom

You all know that I like to think of myself as an existentialist. (a modified one, to be sure) In my reading, I stumbled across this quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the 19th century German writer.

 “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always…

Leap of faith?

I was thinking about yesterday’s post and the phrase “beautiful and terrifying leap of faith.” In some ways, that phrase is a cop-out. It really doesn’t mean anything. It may have a nice literary ring to it, but it is neither precise nor practical.

“Leap of faith,” of course, refers to Kierkegaard…

Dentist

I just got back from a root canal over lunch. Funny how all dentists say the same thing. “This may tingle just a bit. Just lift your hand if…

Grown up films

I came across a review of Nanni Moretti’s, Aprile, about an anxiety-plagued director who isn’t sure how, or even whether, to finish his films:

“…the self-doubting director in Aprile (played by Moretti himself) is so lazy (emphasis mine) and haphazard that the film is less a serious probing of the…

Forgiving the Church

“When we have been wounded by the Church, our temptation is to reject it. But when we reject the Church it becomes very hard for us to keep in touch with the living Christ. When we say, “I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,” we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too.

The challenge…

Nanni Moretti quote

You know what I was thinking?

You know what I was thinking? I was thinking how sad it is that I, even in a society more decent than this…