The Goodness of God and the Theology of Suffering
“If Jesus could heal a blind person he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness?”[1] This, for Christopher Hitchens, was one of the simple, obvious questions...
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What Happens When We Invite Christ Into Our Hearts?
“Man’s virtue is that by which he seeks eagerly for his Creator, and when he finds him, holds to him with all his might.”- Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God “Be...
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Does God Watch While You Have Sex?
How do you imagine God engaging your world? Does he answer your prayers? Does he stand back and watch? Does he hide himself behind natural law and science? Does he...
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Momento Mori
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” I still remember the first time a priest said these words to me as he inscribed a cross of ash...
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Lenten Love
Lent: forty days of fasting. Jesus’s forty days in the wilderness, Noah’s forty days of rain, Moses’s forty days on Sinai, Elijah’s forty day walk to Horeb, Goliath’s...
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The Ontology of Shame
They were naked and not ashamed (Genesis 2:25) I am not ashamed of the Gospel (Romans 1:16) We have all enjoyed being the purveyors of shame at one time or another....
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