Here I apply ideas and central themes expressed in my books to illuminate or simplify present complexities. It may be a comment on a person, policy, process, a poem, philosophical perspective or a spiritual position.

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Religious, philosophical or spiritual perspectives.

Joos de Momper the Younger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Singular Revolution from the Tower of Babel

I define the mono-revolution in another way, focusing of bad faith non-believers.

Spiritual

James Tunney

4 days ago11 min read

From Celestial Cloister to Cellar: Selling Klosterphobia and E-Claustrophobia

Thinking we are being liberated by tech-expansion, we are imprisoned instead.

Current

James Tunney

4 days ago8 min read

The End of Judaism: A Note on the Clerk’s Well

Harari sees a catastrophe for religious Judaism and so do I.

Current

James Tunney

Nov 75 min read

Arch of Titus, 1855 - Public domain dedication, Art Institute of Chicago.

Sacramentality to Sackamentality: A Suggested Concept

I suggest a concept of sackamentality to indicate an assault on the sacred.

Spiritual

James Tunney

Nov 43 min read

Christ and Spiritual (R)evolution: A Very Brief Pointer

We need spiritual (r)evolution to combat the mono-revolution against Christ

Spiritual

James Tunney

Oct 313 min read

Defining the Mono-Revolution and Sili-Transubstantiation

Modern revolution is a permanent political process driven by denial and defiance of God, especially as revealed by the apostolic Church.

Spiritual

James Tunney

Oct 3015 min read

Miniatura del Breviculum ex artibus de Ramon Llull. Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript.

Once Upon a Time… A Revolution… Howth

By outsourcing memory to AI and networks we will be possessed or implode.

Spiritual

James Tunney

Oct 1916 min read

James Joyce: AMGOD Dogma, God Ma or Go Mad?

Abandonment of religion and God comes at a price.

Spiritual

James Tunney

Oct 1511 min read

Purnity: From the Porn of Poverty to Unity and (P)Unity in Catholicism

The dark side of unity.

Current

James Tunney

Oct 73 min read

Glimpses of the Rose Garden

Reflections on the kidnapping of Gena Heraty

Current

James Tunney

Oct 39 min read

100 Reasons Why Ireland is No Longer a Catholic Country

Many explanations I hear for Catholicism’s decline in Ireland are severely limited and too reductive.

Current

James Tunney

Aug 2730 min read

Faustus Loses Us. Hell No!

Western society is sometimes regarded as Faustian but there are fundamentally different interpretations of Faust related not least to changing ideas of moral consequence.

Spiritual

James Tunney

Aug 1112 min read