Do not think I am talking about believing only what you can see with your eyes, or proposing mere materialism. I am talking about observing, touching, loving the physical, the material, the inspirited universe—in all of its suffering state—as the necessary starting place for any healthy spirituality and any true development. Death and resurrection, not death or resurrection. This is indeed the depth of everything. To stay on the surface of anything is invariably to miss its message—even the surface meaning of our sinfulness.
