The rolling emptiness of a Sunday afternoon, The deafening silence of a vacant room, The brutal roar of a mind gone mad, After years of loneliness leave a soul unclad. Reaching a loved one in sea...
“I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.” –C.S. Lewis, The Magicians Nephew My children have ...
https://conciliarpost.com/life-and-faith/c-s-lewis-and-the-critique-of-practicality/
Where are you I want to speak directly to you. I want to hold you fully in my awareness while I speak to you. You’ve been with me my whole life But I was always afraid of you. You were never ba...
https://conciliarpost.com/the-arts/poetry/a-poem-to-my-anxiety/
Nearly ten years ago, we launched Conciliar Post in a very different world than the one we inhabit now. There was no Covid. Vine was the trendy short-form video platform. Taylor Swift had not yet...
https://conciliarpost.com/conciliar-post-news/voices-in-a-changing-world/
At the beginning of The Good Place, Eleanor Shellstrop finds herself in the afterlife. She’s welcomed by the mysterious Michael, who explains her demise and proceeds to show her around the Good...
https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/the-good-place/
I recently came across Margaret Solomon-Bird’s rendition of the Annunciation and found myself reflecting on what must have been a truly remarkable scene. I mean, imagine it: after centuries of ...
https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/following-the-bvm/
One of the most haunting moments in Amazon’s new show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power comes in its fourth episode, when the mysterious Adar, whose origins and identity remain unclear,...
https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/consider-the-orc/
Against my better judgment, but because it’s irresistible fun, I have written on theonomy again. This time, in a symposium for London Lyceum. My contribution is a refutation of the common theon...
https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/theonomys-problem-universals-v-particulars/
In a previous article, I admitted the tension of experiencing unanswered prayers for my own chronic condition, all the while rejoicing in the fact that the Church heals souls; “…for what does...
https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/what-the-eastern-church-does-best/
There’s something primordially powerful about the idea of a house with infinite rooms, something that taps into the deepest recesses of childhood fear and wonder. All of us likely have some mem...
https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/cosmic-order-and-the-architecture-wars/