In his book, Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe, Fr. Stephen Freeman seeks to awaken us to the Reality of God’s living and active presence in our lives. God is not confined in a heaven distanced from our present existence or only found at the end of time, but is truly transformingly present in the here and now. We simply must open our eyes. The Easter study covers six weeks.
The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with …
For Eastertide, we will be reading through Fr. Stephen Freeman’s book Everywhere Present – Christianity in a One-storey Universe. One of the central tenants of …
We perceive heaven as a place up there, and God is found upstairs in the second storey. God’s presence is what we find only once …
The awareness of a one-storey universe with the communion of saints begins with the Incarnation. In the Incarnation, the temporal and the eternal are joined …
For we do not live in a world of mere things, disconnected and without reference to one another and to God. Creation exists with the …
The recovery of the immediacy of God in our storey is the recovery of a thick Christianity of holy days, feasts and fasts, religious imagery, …
The question that Fr. Freeman gives to us is whether our “Christian faith” truly makes a difference in us. If you stepped away from the …
In this one-storey universe, everything becomes a doorway and a window and a means of participation in the depths of the divine reality.
We find our end, not in a future event, but in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the end.
We can see and hear better when we use tools – telescopes, microphones, and other instruments – that allow us to perceive that which is …
A Christ-centered reading of Scripture is a mark of a one-storey universe. Only when Christ is near to us, and not banished upstairs, can he …
For he who loves his enemies loves his neighbor perfectly and loves God perfectly, being conformed to the Spirit of the Savior-God Who stretched out …
These practices are those disciplines that train our eyes to see and ears to hear the Divine Reality which is always present with us. Our …