Mark Moore
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Mark Moore
You’re in Paris on the evening of December 28, 1895. It’s cold and windy, and this lull in the year, between Christmas and New Year’s, feels restless and full of possibilities. You are in the Boulevard des Capucines, a few blocks from the shore of the Seine and the Jardin des Tuileries. You stop in front of the Grand Café, a fashionable meeting spo
... See moreThe Enneagram of Discernment is a triadic map of applied identity: Triad 1—Vocation: the Divine Call of identity, purpose, and direction. Triad 2—Wisdom: the holistic intelligence that guides us to engage our lives with integrity and authenticity. Triad 3—Practice: our intentional work in the fullness of time. Together the triads of discernment pro
... See moreDrew Moser • The Enneagram of Discernment: The Way of Vocation, Wisdom, and Practice
In other words, in much popular modern Christian thought we have made a three-layered mistake. We have Platonized our eschatology (substituting “souls going to heaven” for the promised new creation) and have therefore moralized our anthropology (substituting a qualifying examination of moral performance for the biblical notion of the human vocation
... See moreN. T. Wright • The Day the Revolution Began
atonement
Forgiveness appears counterintuitive in today's culture, where the tendency is to cancel rather than forgive, and to harbor resentment instead of offering grace. This prevailing attitude stems from a belief in our own righteous judgment—that we have been wronged, are owed amends, and that those who have wronged us deserve to face consequences.
But,
... See moreJudgment is vulnerable to error, and thus, justice requires an extra-judicial mechanism for maintaining and saving it: mercy.
The Heart of Judgment Zohar Atkins 3.7.2025
The Heart of Judgment Zohar Atkins 3.7.2025
Sublime Zettels March 2025
Hope doesn’t know the path or direction or destination, but it is receptive to the way.
Things May Appear Bleak, And Yet… Marie Snyder 3.26.2025
Scripture as validated by experience, and experience as validated by Tradition, are good scales for one’s spiritual worldview.
—Richard Rohr