Reading Boccaccio’s Decameron in the Time of Corona By John Mason Lock A friend recently posted on social media that he had gone to the bookstore, and they were out of Boccaccio's The Decameron. This admittedly English-major-type joke is that Boccaccio's clas... Read More...
The Joy Of Salvation: On Bob Ross As Evangelist Evangelism isn’t about pamphlets and theories and door-to-door sales pitches. Instead, it’s living life from a place of profound joy and letting that joy be definitive and overflowing. For us Christians, that joy is given to us by the grace of our Savior Jesus Christ. To share it, we don’t need pamphlets and marketing strategies. We simply need the joy that comes with the story and living our lives defined by that joy.
Ordinariate Evangelism and Archbishop Sheen Abp. Fulton J. Sheen: “The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.”
St. Anselm and Prayerful Theology St. Anselm can only be understood in light of his aim: the joy-filled experience of the beatific vision.
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.
‘Marrying myself’ and the cult of personal happiness Marrying yourself is the wrong answer to many modern problems, but the problems are real.
Trinitarian cuisine My wife, Monica, fires up the holy trinity of Cajun cooking (bell pepper, celery, and onions) in a skillet and I know that bliss is only a few hours away.
