Today's reading is John 14:15-31 (ESV):
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, a...
Obedience is an uncomfortable subject. Our society isn’t set up in a way that makes obedience a particularly attractive virtue. We have to suppress a thrill of ...
“My whole hope is in Your exceeding great mercy and that alone. Grant what You command, and command whatever You want.” (Augustine, Confessions, 10.29)
The Ch...
In my last post, I looked at how Dante uses the weaknesses and failures of Virgil as a character in the Divine Comedy to illustrate the impossibility of true st...