Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Metanoia and the Experience of Time: Beyond Repentance and the Practice of Change in Mark’s Gospel

This brief essay revisits metanoia in Mark’s Gospel as a radical change in our experience of time. This poetic reflection reframes one of Jesus’ first words — often mistranslated as ‘repent’ — as an invitation to loosen expectation and inhabit a time of possibilities.

Greg Laugero 5/25/24 Greg Laugero 5/25/24

Aphorisms on the in-Between Part I

Greg Laugero 5/12/24 Greg Laugero 5/12/24

The Things of God and the Things of Humanity

This essay examines the tension between divine and human action not as a metaphysical divide, but as a practical distinction that shapes how time is lived. Rather than separating sacred from secular, it asks how responsibility is distributed across moments of decision. The question is not what belongs to God and what belongs to humanity in principle, but how action unfolds under conditions of finite agency,

Greg Laugero 1/24/24 Greg Laugero 1/24/24

Zarathustra’s Middle Path

Greg Laugero 12/10/23 Greg Laugero 12/10/23

Civitas Peregrina and Affirmation

Greg Laugero 9/22/23 Greg Laugero 9/22/23

Enlightenment, Negation, Re-Reading

Greg Laugero 9/1/23 Greg Laugero 9/1/23

The Nature of Sin

Greg Laugero 8/29/23 Greg Laugero 8/29/23

Acedia and Ressentiment

Acedia and ressentiment are two of Modernity’s sins. We should learn to deal with them.

Greg Laugero 8/23/23 Greg Laugero 8/23/23

Time Untethered from Motion

The first in a series of meditations coming to terms with Hans Blumenberg’s The Genesis of the Copernican World. This is an important work for anyone interested in time as practice.