Focus
“Rather than support a life of prayer our society keeps us perpetually distracted and erodes our ability to concentrate, compromises our...
Created Order
“Our roots, our heritage, and our life experiences shape us, for in them, as in every aspect of the created order, the hand of the Lord...
Work (Sacredness of)
“It was said to mankind in the person of Adam: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread (Gen. 3:19). Any work that we do every day,...
Love and Worth
“…views modern man as an ‘achievement-subject’ where personal identity and self-worth is not related to relationships, duties, spiritual...
Sacramental Understanding and Living
“…in the sacraments, we are not asking God to make something to be other than it is but to reveal it to be what it truly is…A problem...
Fear and Awe
“Divine awe has nothing to do with trepidation – by which I mean, not the tremulousness induced by joy, but the trepidation induced by...
Incarnation
“In literature and in art, we call the inversion of two elements a “chiasm,” from the Greek letter Chi (Χ) that can be physically traced...
False Gods
“No one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, but we so often freely worship false gods when we ground the meaning...
Looking Backwards/Looking to the Past
“Ultimately, none of us are defined by our past, but rather we are defined by what we become in Christ. This is why we can declare...
Breath and Breathing
“I know well from a history of panic attacks that shallow, quickened breath is a symptom of deep distress. I also know well the wild...