Christianity
“… being in Christ is not any kind of mystical removal from the real world of everyday. On the contrary, it becomes the starting point...
Service and Others
“Called by Isaiah “the just One who serves many well” (Is 53:11), Christ reveals through His life and teaching the high calling of...
Nature
“In the created world only the human being combines material and spiritual elements. Human existence is thus differentiated from...
Transcendence
“…our age is haunted. On the one hand, we live under a brass heaven, ensconced in immanence. We live in the twilight of both gods and...
Body and Soul/Spiritual and Physical
“… to follow our Risen Lord into the joy of the resurrection, we must also open our deepest personal struggles and wounds to Him for...
Beauty
“The love of beauty and our desire for it are the most fundamental parts of our being. This is particularly true if we use the word...
Daily Bread
“Give us this day our daily bread.”…Daily is a misleading translation of the Greek epiousios, which is literally “above the essence” or...
Church
“The Church is not merely a refuge from the troubles and sorrow of the world, though it can be that. Its real purpose is to equip us to...
Sacramental Understanding and Living
“We go to church… in order to have our eyes opened to see the goodness which God bestowed upon creation… We begin to see God revealed in...
Order and Disorder
“In a medieval world, the “order” of things was thought important: kings and commoners, high-born and low-born, masters, yeomen, and...