Tag: Contemplation

  • Dan

    Contrasting views on hatred and hell

    I came across a post from a Christian nationalist and then a thought from Thomas Merton in New Seeds of Contemplation.

  • Dan

    Week 12: The Affections of Christ and Silence

    This quote from Thomas Merton is incredibly wise… and hard. Do everything you can to avoid the noise and the business of men. Keep as far away as you can from the places where they gather to cheat and insult one another, to exploit one another, to laugh at one another, or to mock one another with their false gestures…

  • Dan

    What do the children of light look like?

    I am working my way through Dallas Willard’s book, Renewing the Christian Mind, which was put together after his death by Gary Black, Jr. There is a chapter early in the book called “Living a Transformed Life” that is a deep synopsis of Willard’s thinking on discipleship. In it, Willard described what children of light look like. He described some…