Hunger, Desire, and the Bread of Life By Jonathan A. Powers A Simple Lesson about Hunger There are two words spoken many times each day in our home by our daughter Elizabeth, two words spoken in many homes around the world: “I’m hungry.” As tiresome as it can sometimes be
To the modern mind, the idea of a natural “desire of seeing God”—a common expression in the modern age—appears highly problematic. When I first heard the question at the head of this essay, I did not even know what it meant. How could philosophy justify what by modern definition falls
I have long desired a wilder Catholicism—bygone, primitive, a bit off-kilter. What I have wanted, prayed for, and preached in hope of is that sort of Christianity we read about mostly now in books. Thirty years ago, for instance, William Dalrymple in From the Holy Mountain wrote about stylites, how