We ask for, and receive, the gift of faith at our baptism. We receive the grace to know Christ — not to know him as we know George Washington or Martin Luther, but as I know my parents and my sisters and my wife and my children. This is the substance of our faith: to enter into a relationship with Jesus, with the God-made-man who is not an abstraction but is as real as the faces gathered around our dining-room table at Thanksgiving.
Wrestling With God →
Whence does the anger and ferocity of the evangelical atheist arise? In some cases, at least, it comes from a soul wrestling with God, like Jacob on the banks of the Jabbok. And perhaps all that soul really needs (even if he doesn’t necessarily recognize it himself) is a Christian who cares enough about him to listen — and to respond.
Demons and Saints →
God’s grace is superabundant, but there was a time not that long ago when Christians of all stripes still understood that his grace isn’t cheap.
‘Lead, Kindly Light’ →
John Henry Cardinal Newman is a saint for our time, when the world seems to have abandoned the Way, lost sight of the Truth, and rejected the Life offered through Christ’s death on the cross.
Incarnation and human scale →
A conversation with Wendell Berry, Mary Berry Smith, and Kate Dalton Boyer. (Photo by Scott P. Richert)
The only thing more wonderful than God’s creation of the world is the reality that he sent his only begotten Son to walk the earth as one of us.