Șincai’s Digital Ink, Issue 2, 2026
The Editorial Team
Editor-in-chief:
Rodica-Elza Muresan, teacher of English
Layout artist:
Dalia Mihali, XII C
Writing editors:
Iulia Bodea, XII G (essays, reviews)
Dalia Mihali, XII C (essays, reviews, poems, stories)
Sofia Incze, XII G (poems, stories)
Designers:
Conț Raluca Daria, XI C
Culture and lifestyle editors:
Ana Paula Dan, XII G
Teodora Anițaş, XII G
Paula Gâz, XII G
Georgia Pădurean, XII G
Roxana Ionuț, XII G
Social media managers:
Elena Gherman, XI A
Ariana Cezara Rus-Bucur, IX D
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Editorial
On Love
by Rodica-Elza Muresan, teacher of English
When my editorial team suggested that the topic of the 2nd issue of Șincai’s Digital Ink should be Love, I welcomed their idea as a multifaceted, nuanced, and
bountiful one.
It is in love that we show both our true selves and our potential: are we generous, honest, aware, can we show up openly and vulnerably with another human being? Love reveals both emptiness and overflow. It is the most accurate measure of our shameful smallness and potential greatness at the same time.
There are many kinds of love: from the innocent, wholehearted love of a small child, to the needy, apprehensive love of someone past their prime through the
problematic, self-seeking teenage love, the protective parental love, the friendly affection, the devotional love, the love for one’s country and people, and the often misunderstood self-love. Love has also been classified as romantic (often unrequited) or platonic but its range transcends classifications, including intimate realms as well as entire universes.
Marguerite Porete lived in 13th century Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and France). She was a Beguine (a member of a lay religious sisterhood) and a mystic
who wrote a book entitled The Mirror of Simple Souls. Her ideas were incredibly radical for the time which led to her being tried for heresy which, in the eyes of the public back then, was basically witchcraft. In her book, she argued that when a soul is in a state of perfect Love, it becomes ‘annihilated’ and unites with God. Essentially, she taught that Love is God and that a soul filled with this love no longer needs the intermediate help of the Church, its rituals, or its laws. This was a massive threat to
the authority of the Church. If Love is God and can be accessed directly, the Church feared that people would stop following moral laws or attending Mass. After a long trial, she was condemned as a ‘relapsed heretic’. She refused to stop circulating her book or to recant her views. In 1310, she was burned at the stake in Paris but her book and her idea survived – having resonated with something people could not express themselves but could feel and understand as true for centuries. (…)
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