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

Enlightenment, Negation, Re-Reading

Greg Laugero 9/17/23 Greg Laugero 9/17/23

Jesus and Pilate - Giorgio Agamben

The trial of Jesus was not a trial but a “handing over” as a form of giving up in the face of the “crossing of the temporal and the eternal that assumed the form of a trial.”

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

Antirrhetikos - Evagrius

David Brakke’s Introduction to his translation of this key work by Evagrius of Pontus is well worth the read. In Evagrius I have found no one who more intensely thought about time as practice.

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

The Nature of Sin

Greg Laugero 8/31/23 Greg Laugero 8/31/23

The Highest Poverty - Giorgio Agamben

The monastery perfected the structuring life through the rigorous measurement of time. This went well beyond simply organizing the day. How the monks spent their time became integral to their salvation, and a template for others.

Greg Laugero 8/31/23 Greg Laugero 8/31/23

A Tenth of a Second - Jimena Canales

Modernity didn’t just apply technologies of measuring time at more minute levels. Modernity and time measurement are bound together much more intimately.

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

A Testament of Hope

If you want to understand Modernity, start here.

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.

Greg Laugero 8/20/23 Greg Laugero 8/20/23

Down to Earth - Bruno Latour

A highly accessible version of Facing Gaia. For me it is the classic statement of how the accumulation of wealth has become the latest expression of Gnosticism.

Greg Laugero 8/20/23 Greg Laugero 8/20/23

The Genesis of the Copernican World - Hans Blumenberg

Copernicus did not kick humanity out of the center of the universe. He made the Earth a star and also tried to restore the harmonious relationship between God’s creation and humanity. The consequences for the configuration of time are underappreciated. This book corrects that.

Greg Laugero 8/17/23 Greg Laugero 8/17/23

Cosmopolis - Stephen Toulmin

A very accessible understanding of how Modernity emerges out of the late Middle Ages as a desire for “certainties” arising out of the conflicts and terrors of the European violence of the seventeenth century.