Right now, in this post-holiday season, many of us are recovering from offering hospitality to disagreeable family members: aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and in-laws, whose
“Mary treasured up all [the words of the shepherds] and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19) In Luke’s account of the birth of Christ,
Three of my best friends and I sat on a bench at the back of the chapel after vespers, after an evening of sunset canoeing
In On Christian Doctrine, Augustine wrote, “So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by
“In a revealed religion, silence with God has a value in itself and for its own sake, just because God is God. Failure to recognize
“To teach is to create a space where obedience to truth is practiced.” (Parker Palmer, To Know as We Are Known) Despite all anecdotal evidence
When I first drafted my proposal for the book that would become Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian
When I was young, my grandmother had strict rules against working on Sundays. We were not allowed to do household chores, work in the yard,
“Belonging” seems to be a new buzzword. Everywhere I turn at my university people are talking about how students leave because they don’t feel that
Unite the pair so long disjoin’d Knowledge and vital Piety: Learning and Holiness combined, And Truth and Love, let all men see, In