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Justification: The Article on Which the Church Stands

What exactly is the relationship between justification and sanctification in the Christian life? There is a kind of ecology between them.

The Gift of Consensus on Justification

Editor's Note: This is the first of two essays marking the quarter-century anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.  On October 31,...

Holiness Is the Work of God

Both justification and sanctification are the work of a gracious and intervening God, the one who raises us from the grave and makes us new.

It’s All About Me

It was sometime in August when, listening to a daily Ignatian meditation, I came to see that the parables may not actually be about...

Is there more to the Christian Life than Grace? A Pentecost Reflection

We all know it – one of the key verses that unlocked the Protestant Reformation: “For it is by grace you have been saved,...

Learning to Be God’s Child

Unlike me, God is patient. God is good. God doesn’t need us to pay attention to him but he keeps working at us anyway.

‘Obedience the Remedy’

The two key works of John Henry Newman, written while he was still Anglican, present at least an implicit theory of a Catholic virtue ethic.

How to give God a gift

We want to glorify God by giving him everything we have. What could we possibly give him that would amplify in any way the radiance that he already possesses?

Being French: training clergy 2

Since the Reformation, the Christian Faith has been reduced to being equated with what happens in the gray matter between our ears. It has focused on believing, rather than belonging or being.

The sanctification of Jeb

Blaise Pascal once drew an analogy between man’s relationship with dogs and God’s relationship with man. I was reminded of this one morning.

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