The day St. Christopher, the Saint who ferried Jesus across the river on his shoulders, lost his canonization because his historical facticity was seriously questioned, was a bitter day for sacred imagination. The very point of religion is to give utter devotion to images that render life utterly vibrant and meaningful.
Apparently historians and scientists still think that their notions about experience are more fact than fiction, and yet it is abundantly clear, as revision after revision revolutionizes these fields, that at the most fundamental levels and in all fields we live in a grand web of imagination.
The monk has the courage and the folly to shape a life around imagined inspirations.
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