Remembering I Am Dust

Remembering I Am Dust

Somehow I must learn to put the spiritual life first—truly first—while also giving due to my bodily life. Human life is unified—or in any case it can and should be unified. But this means there is also a genuine duality. Thomas Aquinas, a master of expressing the...
Is My Body Mine?

Is My Body Mine?

“My body is not my own, but my wife’s.” So John Chrysostom admonishes a husband to tell any woman who would try to seduce him. In an age when many, surely including us, are tempted to see our body as ‘our own,’ this raises an issue of the first importance: what really...
Addressing Disembodiment in our Relationships

Addressing Disembodiment in our Relationships

We are consistently told that bodily presence is optional and expendable. This message is reinforced by technologies that make being ‘remote’ easy and attractive. And the fact is we have changed our lives accordingly—to the detriment, especially, of the relationships...

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