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The Exquisite Beauty of the Familiar

by Deal Hudson | Feb 13, 2018 | Daily Comment | 3 |

This morning I burst into song: “Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh, what a beautiful...

Beauty: The Way to Heaven Or Hell?

by Deal Hudson | Jun 22, 2016 | Culture, Featured, Spirituality | 0 |

The religious despisers of beauty would say, beauty is more like the road to ruin than the path to God. With beauty comes attraction to what may be destructive, especially to the lower appetites, as they used to be called. To be an aficiando of beauty, it to be “carnally minded” (Romans 8.7-7).

The Home and Our Children’s Need for Beauty

by Elizabeth Pham | Jan 30, 2016 | Books, Catholic Church, Culture, Family, Featured, Movies, Music, Poetry, TV/Radio | 0 |

We train our children and ourselves how to seek God. It matters what toy the toddler plays with— it actually matters what it’s made out of and what it looks like! It matters what music the toddler listens to. It matters what plates we eat off of. It matters whether or not our children learn to appreciate beauty.

From the Gulag, a Priest and Poet Issue a Warning

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jun 23, 2015 | America, Books, Culture, Eastern Church, Faith, Family, Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality | 1 |

The next day I thumbed through the book, “Father Arseny: A Cloud of Witnesses,” a collection of stories told by those who knew this faithful and humble Russian Orthodox priest, a starets, who had spent more than twenty years in the Soviet Gulag.

A Parable About Beauty

by Deal Hudson | Dec 10, 2014 | Culture, Faith | 0 |

“Beauty, indeed, does come through the eyes, and it is beheld by the senses, that is true,” said the priest. “But it’s not subjective, no more subjective than truth or goodness, which come from God through his creation. Beauty, too, was part of His creation, because God Himself is perfect Beauty.”