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2 weeks ago | 
copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake
“It is not in a part of human nature that the image of God is found, but nature in its totality is the image of God.” —Saint Gregory of Nyssa (On the Creation of Man)“Having thus united us with Himself and Himself with us, and having become one with us in all things, He makes His own all that is ours….
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1 month ago | 
copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake
As the oldest of nine children in a close family that lost our mother too soon to breast cancer, I have traveled the most far afield theologically from the conservative American Presbyterianism in which we were most lovingly raised by wise and caring parents. Specifically, my wife, three children and I all joined the Orthodox church on Sunday, November 26, 2017. I lost my mother a year later on Wednesday, November 21, 2018.
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1 month ago | 
christiancentury.org | Katherine A. Shaner |Mac Loftin |Isaac S. Villegas |Jesse Hake
To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Revelation can be a terrifying book of the Bible to encounter in the Easter season. We usually think about it as a doom and gloom kind of book. That is until a child, bleating like a sheep, reminds us what it is all about.
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1 month ago | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Isaac S. Villegas |Jesse Hake |Cait West
The card holders on the long dining room table offered guidance to the women assembled around it: “Keep it Constitutional” and “Keep it Kind.” With those themes in mind, about 10 women, using beige or light blue fabric pieces and colorful markers, sat down to craft messages to their state representative or senator: “Checks and balances are vital to protect the power of Congress.” “We the People” “Rule of law for all” “Everyone deserves due process” Their 10×10 fabric pieces were later...
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2 months ago | 
copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake
As part of my work with Classical Academic Press, I will be participating on a panel for a live webinar entitled “Animals, Arts, & Archenland” on April 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM (Eastern time).
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2 months ago | 
copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake
Two announcements here, my dear readers:I contributed “Chapter 4: God’s Sparrows and Our Resurrection: Animals in the Restoration of All Things” to this book that has just gone on sale today. My chapter engages with the thought of the Apostle Paul, church fathers, C. S. Lewis and many others on the topic of animals in the kingdom of God. I was invited by The Russell Kirk Center to review Andrew Kern’s book Unless the Lord Builds the House: Shared Foundations for Christian Education.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake
Dear readers, you remain remarkably active in the archives when I’m slow to update here from time to time. While these lively comments and shares on a day to day basis are great to see, I do owe you all some fresh content.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
theclassicalmind.com | Wesley Walker |Jesse Hake
Our episode on Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy featuring will be out this coming Tuesday!Our next read is The Journey of the Mind to God by Bonaventure. We will be doing that in a special format which we will announce later. I will be speaking for the Triangle Classical Forum at Beow’s Books and Brews in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 25 at 7p.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake
Our default today is to think of theism in terms of either deism or supernaturalism. God is thought of as either a God who intervenes and makes occasional exceptions to the laws of nature or a God who does not. As Bulgakov reiterates in a hundred ways throughout The Bride of the Lamb, however, both of these concepts are confused perversions of theism and Christianity.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
copiousflowers.substack.com | Jesse Hake
I’m delighted to have had the chance to chat today with author and retired parish priest Addison Hodges Hart (more here and here) along with Wheaton College art history professor Matthew Milliner (more here and here) about the concept of a meta-historical human fall. As would certainly be expected (and as will be fairly apparent), we do not all share the same ideas.
