Islam, Worldview, and the Deep Questions of Life
Invest time in personal relationships with non-Christians. The Enlightenment was fundamentally mistaken in supposing that reason is the key driver of history and human decisions. It is not.
St. Anselm and Prayerful Theology
St. Anselm can only be understood in light of his aim: the joy-filled experience of the beatific vision.
Epiphany Seen through Monastic Eyes
The central theme for Epiphanytide is the manifestation of Christ to the world, which leads to the obvious exhortation that every Christian is called to repent and believe in the gospel.
The light shines incomprehensibly
The light shines in the darkness. And the darkness cannot understand it, control it, name it, manipulate it, or master it.
Light in the darkness
The Scriptures are saturated with imagery of light; they begin with God speaking light into being and end with the heavenly Jerusalem alight with the glory of God.
Evangelism of the weird
It is good that Christians are weird. The weirder we can be, the better.
Seeing Jesus before penitence: No return to the Gesimas
Epiphany has become a season, and that is a good thing.
The meditation of Simeon
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.