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Seeking the Sacred: Douthat’s Case for Religious Tradition in an Age of Uncertainty
We are pilgrims in this world. We must be content to wonder as we wander. Douthat is asking his readers to cast their nets into the deep.
Sweet Tea and Sacraments: Flannery O’Connor, the American South, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
O’Connor’s fiction does not offer sentimental portraits of faith—it tests faith.
Lead Kindly Light
And so, feeling blessed by the rich experiences of my ministry, I stand at the start of a new year in the dying days of the old one.
An Invitation to a Different Story: A Review of Letters to a Future Saint
Christianity is not merely a doctrine to believe but a life to live and embody. East understands this and invites Future Saints into a different imagination and way of life.
Slange Var!
When we toast we celebrate our fight against the forces of darkness and evil.
The Census Taker in a Church Pew, part 6
This rural mountain church continues to be good because it continues to do what is necessary.
The Census Taker In a Church Pew, Part 5
Her heart is for those little ones, that they might come to know The One who became a child for our salvation and for the glory of God.
98.6 Percent of Us Sense our Dead
We’re not crazy — and we’re not alone
Marriage Will Kill You (And That’s Good)
You can either have a hard marriage or an unhealthy marriage. These are your options. And Key not only made me feel normal, but he made me want to live…
The Cake of Many Layers: Walking a City through Time
To walk a place is to open the door to the possibility that you will grow to love it. With time, you could get to know it in an intimate…
The Insistent Cough of Grace: Remembering Frederick Buechner
His books are not a diminishment of historic and intellectual Christianity. They are a translation of Aquinas, Barth, Calvin, and the rest into the language we all speak innately but…
The Knight of Faith: Franz Jägerstätter’s Hidden Life
In the midst of whatever trials come to us and whatever revelations do not, we are still called to serve, to do good, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.…
Nisi Crederet, non Caperet
Beauty is the beginning and end of all true knowledge: really to know, one must first love, and having known, one must finally delight; only this “corresponds” to the Trinitarian…
Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money
I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer Francis Thompson was presented by his father with a…
A Brief History of Time Wasted.
The Ninth Anniversary of 9/11/01; Three Squared Equals Zero in the New American Math.
Personality, Conversion, and Being: On John Paul II’s “Fides et Ratio”
The Reader Objects!: If God is Personal and Loving above all, if the Christian believes reason is fundamentally preceded by what is revealed in Faith, then what grounds has the…
When Friendship and Fellowship Collide
Less happy for mother is the reality that the single soul, resulting from this communion of two bodies, receives nourishment from single-malt.