I am scheduled to go on a three-day silent retreat with the Jesuits today and I don’t want to go. Worse, I don’t exactly know why.
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A passage from a novel in progress—the third novel in the Jon Mote series that began with Death Comes for the Deconstructionist. Jon is a troubled soul, in many different but related ways. He tends to be obsessive in his thought life, which is the only life any of us really knows. He’s abandoned the religious faith of his youth, but is still haunted by it.
Read More“Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that we are distant from God and then seek to make that distance into an intense experience.”
Read More“I discover the holy . . . [by] peering under the edges of the ordinary.”
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