Sublime

There is nothing shaggy or uncareful about him. Taut, press shy, and disposed to choose his words with a pair of tweezers, Jesse, now in his fifties, prefers to do his work out of public view, and preferably from the one-room cabin where he lives by himself in the rugged hills north of San Francisco, off the grid except for a fast Internet connecti

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

As preachers, theologians are proclaimers of the Word, the truth of Jesus Christ as the Liberator of the poor and the wretched

In it, he folded Christian and psychological categories into a New Thought theme: God’s power could be harnessed by “a spirit and method by which we can control and even determine” life’s circumstances.

“sons of God,” a potential reference to angels, and in this case fallen angels.

I have not as yet mentioned a circumstance which influenced my whole career more than any other. This was my friendship with Professor Henslow. Before coming up to Cambridge, I had heard of him from my brother as a man who knew every branch of science, and I was accordingly prepared to reverence him. He kept open house once every week when all unde

John O’Donohue, a former Irish Catholic priest, philosopher, poet, and, in his own words, mystic

But I know what Webb means—something like “about as close as you can get to being a full-fledged egalitarian without actually becoming one”—