Christians have a long tradition of discussing human appetites—for corporeal things like food, sex, and comfort, as well as for incorporeal things …
Author: Alisa Ruddell
Alisa Ruddell is an associate editor and staff writer for Christ and Pop Culture. She is a homeschooling mother of four who lives in Charlottesville, VA with her husband Steve. She loves classic literature, reading aloud to her children on the couch, listening to theology podcasts, and watching science fiction movies.
As a child growing up in the evangelical church of the ‘80s and ‘90s, I heard plenty about the “end times.”
Read part three. Why You Can Thank Medieval Nominalism for Your Modern Neuroses Your problems aren’t just your problems, and they won’t be solved overnight, … Read More ›
Read part two. Of All Evil I Deem You Capable Jung said each of us must possess the utmost possible knowledge of our own wholeness, … Read More ›
Read part one. A Tale of Two Elephants: Metaphors for the Unconscious Because you are a hybrid creature, a mixture of the mortal dust of … Read More ›
Jung believed that dream symbols had the value of parables. He said that dreams do not conceal, but rather teach in the best way they know how — not in words but in images.
“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” William James … Read More ›
A few years ago, suffering and death took a sledgehammer to my neat little map of reality.
Each year when Advent begins, my heart circles back to the Incarnation, to the mystery that is God’s body. As a part of my practice … Read More ›