What Is a Child?

By Neil Dhingra What is a child? For Karl Rahner, a child is already a Mensch. If children have to grow, strengthen, learn, and mature, what must remain is a mystery in childhood, “which endows us with the p... Read More...

For God So Loved the World

By David Ney For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) It is, surely, one of the universal experiences of f... Read More...

Nourishing Memories, Chapter 2: Schooldays

By Graham Kings Primary School Mrs. Housley, my primary school teacher when I was seven, claimed she did not go to church because Jesus was rude to his mother, calling her “Woman” at the Wedding at Cana (John 2) and again from the cross (John 19). She the... Read More...

Nourishing Memories, Chapter 1

Early Childhood A continuation of my memoir. By Graham Kings “I must confess, I was born at a very early age.” — Groucho Marx Birth I make the same confession as Groucho Marx. Perhaps, though, it is w... Read More...

Baby Jesus and Playground Trash Talk

God descends into the messiness of our lives so that we might ascend to participate and share in his glory, a glory that does not result from our genetics, or bloodline, or our own self-determination, but from the sheer grace of God.