Kenneth Kovacs
@kenkovacs.bsky.social
Exploring the depths. Presbyterian minister (PCUSA) in Baltimore. PhD@univofstandrews. Missing Scotland. Jungian Psychoanalyst, CGJung Institut-Zürich (IAAP). 🏴🏳️🌈
Bonhoeffer is a wise guide through Advent.
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Bonhoeffer is a wise guide through Advent.
Happy Feast Day of St. Andrew (30 November)! Image: Museum of the University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, @musa_standrews. #standrewsday
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy Feast Day of St. Andrew (30 November)! Image: Museum of the University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, @musa_standrews. #standrewsday
Reading this weekend: Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich. The opening sentence: “Democracies are fragile. They can flip into dictatorships. Liberties that seemed won for all times can be squandered.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Reading this weekend: Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich. The opening sentence: “Democracies are fragile. They can flip into dictatorships. Liberties that seemed won for all times can be squandered.”
Reading this weekend: Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich. The opening sentence: “Democracies are fragile. They can flip into dictatorships. Liberties that seemed won for all times can be squandered.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reading this weekend: Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich. The opening sentence: “Democracies are fragile. They can flip into dictatorships. Liberties that seemed won for all times can be squandered.”
“It is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.” ~Kallistos Ware
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“It is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.” ~Kallistos Ware
We may not see you as our souls see you,...
...
We build up pictures before you like walls -
by now a thousand such walls surround you.
For each time our open hearts behold you,
our pious hands cloak you in disguise.
~Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), The Book of Hours
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We build up pictures before you like walls -
by now a thousand such walls surround you.
For each time our open hearts behold you,
our pious hands cloak you in disguise.
~Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), The Book of Hours
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We may not see you as our souls see you,...
...
We build up pictures before you like walls -
by now a thousand such walls surround you.
For each time our open hearts behold you,
our pious hands cloak you in disguise.
~Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), The Book of Hours
...
We build up pictures before you like walls -
by now a thousand such walls surround you.
For each time our open hearts behold you,
our pious hands cloak you in disguise.
~Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), The Book of Hours
The longer I behold your face, O Lord, my God, the more keenly you seem to fix your glance on me. ~Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), De visione Dei (On the Vision of God), 1453
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The longer I behold your face, O Lord, my God, the more keenly you seem to fix your glance on me. ~Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), De visione Dei (On the Vision of God), 1453
“The only punishment capable of punishing Hitler, and deterring little boys thirsting for greatness in coming centuries from following his example is such a total transformation of the meaning attached to greatness that he should thereby be excluded from it.” -Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1943)
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“The only punishment capable of punishing Hitler, and deterring little boys thirsting for greatness in coming centuries from following his example is such a total transformation of the meaning attached to greatness that he should thereby be excluded from it.” -Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1943)
Our supremest need is real faith in the omnipotence of Love. Thousands talk of God Almighty, and have no faith in Love at all; to them the real powers are force, wealth, competition, and self-interest. These are the powers that sway the world. ~G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, Food for the Fed Up (1921)
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Our supremest need is real faith in the omnipotence of Love. Thousands talk of God Almighty, and have no faith in Love at all; to them the real powers are force, wealth, competition, and self-interest. These are the powers that sway the world. ~G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, Food for the Fed Up (1921)
“A Christianity without empathy is nothing but an empty religion. The heart of the gospel is to love your neighbor as yourself, to rejoice with those who rejoice, and to weep with those who weep.”
~Henri Nouwen, “The Return of the Prodigal Son”
~Henri Nouwen, “The Return of the Prodigal Son”
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
“A Christianity without empathy is nothing but an empty religion. The heart of the gospel is to love your neighbor as yourself, to rejoice with those who rejoice, and to weep with those who weep.”
~Henri Nouwen, “The Return of the Prodigal Son”
~Henri Nouwen, “The Return of the Prodigal Son”
"O blest communion, fellowship divine,
we feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!" ~William Walsham How (1864)
#AllSaintsDay
we feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!" ~William Walsham How (1864)
#AllSaintsDay
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"O blest communion, fellowship divine,
we feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!" ~William Walsham How (1864)
#AllSaintsDay
we feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia! Alleluia!" ~William Walsham How (1864)
#AllSaintsDay
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
October 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
A No Kings Dance Party at Penn Station, Baltimore. Joyful. Peaceful. Weird. John Waters would be proud.
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A No Kings Dance Party at Penn Station, Baltimore. Joyful. Peaceful. Weird. John Waters would be proud.
A good day to remember this…
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A good day to remember this…
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
