No Escaping the Marketplace: Why the Church Needs an Augustine Option
What can the Church do in the public forum? The only thing the Church was ever meant to do: announce the kingdom.
The Kavanaugh Hearings: A Letter from St. Augustine
People love almost above all else to be at war.
Use, Enjoyment, and the Order of Things
The recognition that God is the supreme object of our enjoyment fills us with wonder at creation’s transparency to the love and goodness of God.
Remembering, Thinking, Imagining: Augustine, Anselm, and Rowan
Remembering the past, thinking in the present, and imagining the future all interweave.
Desire prevails over reason
Faith, hope, and love — those absolutes of the Christian life — are instances of desire.
Christian readers and ‘the path of charity’
In Christian speech, we are bound together on the path of knowledge whose end is God.
Gathering and scattering in Augustine’s Confessions
For Augustine, the issue was not that there isn’t enough time, but that we are enmeshed in it at all.
Climbing the ladder of God’s delight
My first encounter with natural delight changed my life. I ended up leaving my parish ministry in North Carolina to move to the United Kingdom. Since then, I’ve gone out into wildernesses and the countryside with increasing regularity, spending as much time as I responsibly can soaking in the natural world and learning how to delight.