An Unsentimental Family
The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.
A Choice that Changed the World
Gabriel announced that Mary was chosen, not that she was already pregnant.
The Alleged Bigotry of Jesus
Was Jesus a racist? As usual, social media hosted a flood of opinion.
Punishing Children for their Fathers’ Sins
In modern America, we have decided that punishing children for the perceived crimes of their parents is both acceptable and practical.
The light shines incomprehensibly
The light shines in the darkness. And the darkness cannot understand it, control it, name it, manipulate it, or master it.
I want you to use me
When Augustine says that God alone is to be enjoyed, and everything else — including human beings — used, he does not mean that everything besides God is worthless.
Finding the joy of God’s kingdom
For many years I skimmed over the Sermon on the Mount as an example of Jesus’ hyperbolic teaching without engaging it as a key to a deeper relationship with God.
Nothing is really Caesar’s
For Jesus, God and the emperor are so far apart that a competition between them is meaningless.