
Beauty: Love your Enemies.
Drawing from Thomas Merton’s revelation—that all people are “walking around shining like the sun”—Stu considers what it means to acknowledge the belovedness of others, even when it’s difficult. Inspired by theologian Miroslav Volf’s struggle to embrace those who brutalized his people, Stu confronts a hard truth: No, I cannot—but as a follower of Christ, I should be able to.
Beauty as God’s glory…
Stu McGregor explores the tension between an abstract, transcendent understanding of God and the need for a tangible, immanent presence in daily life. Wrestling with theological perspectives, particularly Paul Tillich’s notion of God beyond human comprehension, he finds that while this view frees God from rigid definitions, it also distances the divine from personal experience. A pilgrimage on the Camino forced a choice on for him—stay in the faith or leave—and he chooses to remain, drawn to the richness of Christ’s teachings. Yet, the absence of a felt presence lingers until David Bentley Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite reintroduces beauty as a bridge between the real and the divine. Beauty, objective and transcendent, dissolves boundaries and reveals God’s glory, offering a way to reconnect with a faith that had become overly abstract.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: truly!
Spirituality is not supernatural, it’s actually superbly natural.



