Reading Contemplatively
While the decline of contemplative reading is a problem for the professor, it’s a threat to the Christian, especially those of us operating within a sacramental tradition.
Find Yourself Within the Book of Life
The book of life, however, is more than a guest list for heaven. It's no other than the book of Scripture. And the book of Scripture is more than a history book. It actually maps out where time is going.
Bibles for the Ages
Sometimes I want to sit down to read the Bible in well-wrought English, within a book that is well-made, and on pages that are admirably formatted and presented. Those are all features that help me concentrate on what I believe to be the Word of God.
Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ of Faith
The only access we have to Jesus is through the Christ who is the object of our faith — the Christ who lived and died and rose for us, who intercedes for us as our Great High Priest, and who will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. It is alone through Jesus Christ that we have any knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth.
Respecting the Mystery: On Christian Doctrine
Christian doctrine functions, above all, as a safeguard for mystery. It holds in flaming tension what would otherwise devolve into drab truisms.
Psalm 23 and a Biblical Imagination for Catechesis
The Church Fathers invite us to teach the faith in ways that emerge out of patient readings and re-readings of Scripture.
The Advantages of the King James Version
All of our modern translations or paraphrases have an eye looking toward one set of biases in the other groups of people translating the other versions.
The King James Version and Contemporary Translations
What's the place of the KJV in the diverse family of contemporary translations?