funny

Paws to Worship

kitten staring upward against sparkly background

In cleaning out files, this piece surfaced—created years before I’d done much writing about sacred objects. I’d totally forgotten about both this Joan of Arc embarrassment and the cat-food recall.…

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occult

Burn It Because…

fire burning

Burning is what the new Christians in Ephesus did with the heaps of occult objects they’d accumulated in their years of paganism. The burning was presumably to completely disavow and…

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mysticism

Visio Divina

We’ve posted about lectio divina here and here. There’s also visio divina (“divine seeing” or “sacred seeing”). What is that exactly? It involves gazing at an icon, work of art,…

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