Mark Moore

The human mind can leave traces behind that are easy to read.

1.6.2025 [3]

Stone for them was never dead. It was potential resonance. A block of limestone or granite was a conductor waiting to be tuned. The combination of gold, alabaster, and orientation to stellar rise was not aesthetic indulgence but a calibration of vibration. Every material, every angle, every chamber participated in a single harmonic field that

James C. Scott’s metis—practical wisdom from local experience—develops precisely in friction between citizens and bureaucrats. This knowledge is political. It teaches that the state is not natural force but human construction, subject to pressure, persuasion, change. … This isn’t just technocratic—it’s constitutional. The question isn’t whether

When God places Adam in Eden, it is “l’ovdah ul’shomrah“—to work it and to keep it (Genesis 2:15). Paradise required tending before the so-called Fall. Labor and blessing were never opposed; the garden needed cultivation from the very beginning. Divine gift and human work were always meant to meet.

From Bribe to Blessing Zohar Atkins

St. Isaac of Syria wrote: “We know nothing of God’s justice – only His mercy.” … The nature of the Kingdom of God (as revealed in the commandments of Christ) is utter gratuitousness – it is grace poured out without measure.

The Gratuitous Wonder of Unbounded Joy Fr. Stephen 12.2.2025

The truth of the atonement, Christ’s death and resurrection, … is rather the trampling down of the whole world of payments, demolishing the greatest debt of all: death. The sacrifice of Christ is … Life poured out on death, thanksgiving triumphing over necessity. Every act of thanksgiving is a communion in the death and resurrection of Christ. It

Maximos concludes the prologue with an extended argument about God’s radical transcendence of the world. Indeed, God so radically transcends creation that he cannot properly be said even to exist or possess being, since this would place God on the same level as his creations. It seems that, before embarking on the series of images and analogies

Deleuze saw this mutation long before it finished its work. He wrote that disciplinary societies sculpted bodies while control societies modulate flows. The subject—the historical, bounded person—is disassembled into dividuals, units of conduct and preference that drift through databases. Power no longer commands; it calibrates. It does not punish

The main battleground in this debate revealed a method for seeing the potential in other people.

12.24.2025 [6]