Why the Church Needs to Abandon Christian Values
It’s time the Church left the world scrabbling around for values, and let herself instead be conformed to the virtues of Christ.
Abortion: 15 Questions We Are Not Asking Together
Christians are rarely equipped to even think about asking countless important questions. Sides are chosen, and slogans are tossed across party lines.
How to Be Perfect
The command to be perfect is only a deeper statement of the startling ethics Jesus presents in the beginning of the chapter in the beatitudes.
Social Media and the Christian Life
How do we as Christians deal with the discordant realities faced on social media?
Donna Reed and the Road of Meekness: It’s a Wonderful Life
We see Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed diverge: one stumbles down the road of wrath, the other patiently follows the road of meekness.
Wendell Berry, Poet and Prophet
Wendell Berry, this great Bard — as great an American voice as Thoreau’s or Whitman’s — assumes that the reality before and all around us in nature is infinitely complex and therefore cannot be fully comprehended by any human intellect.
In the Beginning: A Theological Foundation for Environmental Ethics
Why did God create the heavens and the earth, human beings, and all the rest?
Why I Would Refuse Communion to the President
As a priest I would happily welcome President Trump to any service, but I would refuse to give him Holy Communion.