Wise advice from David Bentley Hart for those of us who find ourselves increasingly cynical during this political season:
"When Aristotle asserted that 'man is...
Neither birds in cages nor those with broken wings are free to fly. Nor will removing the cage of a bird with broken wings bring it its desired freedom; the wou...
“The crucial difference between the Catholic and common uses of the word “mystery” lies here. When the term is applied to divine realities, the mystery involv...
Against every dictate of common (or is it merely human?) sense, the apostle Paul once audaciously claimed that, in his own intentional crafting of his gospel me...
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart"
--Unknown
Of late, I've...
The overwhelming majority of commentators and scholars who reflect upon Paul's letter to the Romans agree that 1:16-17 is the thesis of the apostle's entire vis...
"One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there's nothing but unanswered pain. That death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man sees that same...
My regular reading practice of the Gospels has been most acutely altered over the past few years as a direct result of what now strikes me as a painfully obviou...
Paul's warning in 1 Corinthians 6:18 often strikes me as a mystifying exaltation of sexual sin above other sorts of moral failures . Why should deviance from G...
David Foster Wallace, the enigmatic and fascinating author of Infinite Jest and (the posthumously published) The Pale King, gave a remarkable commencement addre...
