Category: The Narrow Gate

Essay 6 — What the University of Virginia has been quietly finding — and why it looks so familiar Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “I believe in Spinoza’s God — a God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of human…

Essay 5 — Bruno, Spinoza, and the three-hundred-year cost of making God too large for the institution to contain Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “I believe in Spinoza’s God — a God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of men.”…

Essay 4 — What the Cathars Died for Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” — Mahatma Gandhi “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” — Paul, Galatians…

Essay 3 — How two centuries of church councils built the architecture of the narrow gate — and why it was never purely about theology Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” — Chinua Achebe Glowing Mushroom – even in the…

Essay 2 — Where the narrowing began, and where it leads Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.’ — 1 Corinthians 13:12 Star trails over Nevada campground. The previous essay asked what the narrowing built. This one asks where it started. The architecture was three…

Essay 1 — Eternity set in the human heart — and what was taken away to keep it there quietly Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” — Ecclesiastes 3:11 (ESV) Friend, Oregon — a one-room…