Growing in faith, unity, and mission?
With unclear lines of authority, can Anglicans and Roman Catholics share in the mission of the Word and kingdom of God in their respective contexts?
The Honey-Sweet Doctor: Bernard of Clairvaux
You can almost smell the pages of Scripture as you turn the pages of Bernard’s sermons.
Never flag in zeal
God’s zeal is the love that moves the sun and the other stars, the love that gave everything to secure our redemption.
I want a religion
Some say, "I want a relationship, not a religion." But I say "I rather like my religion, and I'm pretty sure it's good for me."
What do you seek?
Most of the time, I don’t know what it is that I really want. I hope that I am seeking Jesus of Nazareth, but it may well be that I’m seeking him more for my own complacent self-congratulation than because I actually want him, as he is, in all his terrifying radiance.
I have called you friends
There is a whole wonderful realm of relational intimacy that our culture misses out on by loading all of its human-closeness eggs in the basket of specifically sexual intimacy.
The language of heaven
Words are powerful, and the task of speaking is a perilous one. Words of arrogance and envy, of spite and resentment, of contempt and scorn, all have the power to poison the air.
We need the Marines
The insignia of the military remind other Americans of the costs of their manner of life. The habit of the religious life is similar.