Holy Fools are found is every religious tradition and usually refers to behavior such as giving up all one’s worldly possessions and deliberately flouting society’s conventions to serve a higher spiritual purpose. Most mystics follow this path. Early Christian examples include the Desert Mothers & Fathers. Some scholars consider St Paul and Jesus of Nazareth as exemplars of this tradition.
A mystic must let go to grow The longer I walk the path of holy fools, the more convinced I am that the mystic life is one of constant rebellion from the norms of the world. It is a counter-cultural pursuit of weakness, not strength; of poverty, not wealth, obscurity rather than fame; humility, not […]
Theologians have – let’s just call it – a bit of a thing for Dostoevsky. I first noticed the term holy fool in one of his books.1 These days I realize that the living Spirit has a regular habit of taking me toward that which I am absolutely intended to see. And this Holy fool
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