Mac Stewart was born and raised in Raleigh, NC, at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, and served as an Episcopal clergyman from 2014 until 2022. He completed degrees at UNC-Chapel Hill (B.A., Philosophy, 2009), Duke Divinity School (M.Div., 2013), Yale Divinity School (S.T.M., 2014), and The Catholic University of America (Ph.D., 2022). He served churches in Oklahoma, Maryland, and Washington, DC, and has taught several courses as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Theology at CUA. He was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church on January 16th, 2023.
When Augustine says that God alone is to be enjoyed, and everything else — including human beings — used, he does not mean that everything besides God is worthless.
Rowan Williams: "It is more attractive to go in quest of the real Church than to seek for the pattern of Cross and Resurrection in the heart of where we happen to find ourselves. But Ramsey implicitly warns us that the quest can be a way back to the self-defining and self-protective religious institution that always distorts or stifles the gospel."
Because of His visitation, we may no longer desire God as if He were lacking: our redemption is no longer a question of pursuit but of surrender to Him who is always and everywhere present.