Sublime

By a Schaefferian strategy,

It is desire that joins fragments, designs, buildings, and motions together, turning us out toward one another through and in a redeeming Eros.

I’m not who I used to be; I’m on the way to being who I’m called to be; but I’m not there yet, Augustine counsels.

If Augustine spent half his life battling the heresy of Pelagianism—the pretension that the human will was sufficient to choose its good—it’s because he saw it as the great lie that left people enchained to their dissolute wills. And no one is more Pelagian than we moderns.

The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.