Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“We should think, not of God the Manufacturer or God the Craftsman, but of God the Lover.” - Kallistos Ware
As the twentieth-century Serbian Orthodox monk Thaddeus of Vitovnica writes, “Everything is constantly changing; nothing remains static.”
Martin Laird • An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation
the focus on Jesus as a continuous human subject, born, maturing, dying.
Rowan Williams • Christ the Heart of Creation
from the troubles of life in a way that only God can.
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
Sorrow must be allowed to blossom into self-forgetful love of God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Diakonia, or serving
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
As Kallistos Ware put it, “From this hour and moment I can start to walk through the world, conscious that it is God’s world, that he is near me in everything that I see and touch, in everyone whom I encounter.”