Traumatic Tradition isn’t ‘too Christian’ but not Christian Enough – Christian Hollums
What if the parts of you that doubted, questioned, or even walked away weren’t signs of spiritual failure—but signs of something deeper trying to survive?
This piece is born from the intersection of theology and therapy, of David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse and the insights of attachment theory, trauma healing, and inner systems work. For those of us who grew up with rigid religion—where obedience was love and questioning was betrayal—Hart’s reimagining of tradition doesn’t just offer an intellectual shift. It offers a lifeline.
Here, we explore how tradition, when hardened, can mimic the wounds of disorganized attachment—and how a truly living tradition might actually help us heal them.
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Bill Morgan’s “Thomas Merton & Lawrence Ferlinghetti: and the Protection of All Beings – Review by Ron Dart
Bill Morgan, Thomas Merton & Lawrence Ferlinghetti: and the Protection of All Beings (Beatdom Books, 2022) As to the U.S. Beats I am more in sympathy with them but in most cases I do not respond to them fully. Thomas Merton letter to Stefan Baciu (1965): p.77 I...
Stray thoughts on Christian Nationalism – C.E.W. Green
CEW Green 1. Whatever else “Christian nationalism” is in theory, in practice, it turns out to be a way of talking about Jesus so that no one, including him, can keep us from doing the evils we think we need to do to save our way of life. So far as I can see, that...
The Mystic & the Lawyer – the Nature of Redemption – Lazar Puhalo
The Orthodox concept of redemption may be briefly epitomized as follows: the meaning of "atonement" is really "to remove (or overcome) the cause of separation." In other words, man is alienated from God by sin (by his constant "missing of the...
The World’s True Story Told Well – Kenneth Tanner
Icon: Copyright Oleksandr Antoniuk - UPB to KT When we tell the story of the world well, it is converting, not condemning. The world’s true story gives life.And we cannot tell the world’s story well—we cannot tell our story well—if we do not tell God’s story...
Deconstructing Deconstruction – Felicia Murrell (w/ Bradley Jersak)
Deconstructing Deconstruction – Felicia Murrell (w/Brad Jersak) Editor’s Note: The following interview is a partial transcript of one for four forthcoming podcast interviews on “deconstruction” at Stephen Backhouse’s Tent Theology Podcast. Bradley Jersak will be...
Ron Dart – Myth and Meaning and the Inklings
Ron Dart – Scrutinizing Scruton: Canadian High Toryism & Scrutonia
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“Out of the Embers: Faith after the Great Deconstruction” – Ron Dart interview with Bradley Jersak
Grounding: My Operational Realities – Ken Hood
Ken Hood OPERATIONAL REALITIES We all live by, and within, our own realities. Most of the time, we all share these realities. We all act as if the chair we sit in is real, and will hold us. We believe, and in this case, it’s “true” based on empirical...
“I can only get to Alyosha via Ivan”: Confessions of a Grumpy Universalist – Adrian Lovegrove w/ Bradley Jersak
The following was a conversation via email between Adrian Lovegrove and Bradley Jersak over the final weeks of 2022. ADRIAN LOVEGROVE I began formal theological study back in 2011. I could no longer buy the evangelical package deal, but I hoped there...