Archive - PASSIO

Introducing 'Ulterior Lives'

Digging into the history and the social politics of monasticism, with the Passio Project.

Dec 2 •

The Passio Project

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David Benjamin Blower

November 2024

Homesick for the ground you walk on

Reckoning with the systems in which we find ourselves

Nov 14 •

The Passio Project

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David Benjamin Blower

October 2024

September 2024

August 2024

Your enemy is God's gift to you

There is a possibility, however slim, that our arguments can lead us to miraculous change.

Aug 29 •

The Passio Project

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David Benjamin Blower

A Love Letter from 1981

One of the basic facts of being human is this: God's creation, earth and human, belongs to us all.

Aug 22 •

The Passio Project

Is poverty the problem — or wealth?

For many centuries, voluntary poverty was the mark of revolutionary movements of all kinds, not just religious orders

Aug 15 •

The Passio Project

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David Benjamin Blower

Breaking the cycle of power

The eccentric St Paul of the Cross, who took peculiar delight in his own “nothingness,” opens a loophole in our embattled political imagination.

Aug 1 •

The Passio Project

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David Benjamin Blower

July 2024

In praise of nothingness

St Paul of the Cross seems to find a childlike freedom in having nothing to prove.

Jul 18 •

The Passio Project

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David Benjamin Blower

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