…the details of Leviticus, taken within the sacrificial movement of Christ, demand that we draw into a direct relationship of responsibility with God the range of elements upon which our love, ordered to God, is to be exercised. These necessarily include prayer, disease, sexual relations, moral usage of money, animals, crops and plantings, the poor, […]
Alan Jacobs in defense of testimony sharing We should never presume that our exercise of memoria is perfect, nor that the patterns it reveals predict our future with perfect accuracy. […] In one of his sermons D. L. Moody proclaimed, You ask me to explain regeneration. I cannot do it. But one thing I know—that […]
Michael Altenburger on the Christian Single Life Single people have the virtue of being available in a way that married and religious cannot. They are an incarnated witness to Christian values that cannot help but deepen and enrich the world encountered in their work, service, and relationships. In a period of rapid flux and shifts […]
Robert Barron on interior division and its antidote Reflecting on Mark 1:21-28 Today’s Gospel finds Jesus encountering a man with an unclean spirit in the synagogue at Capernaum. Isn’t it interesting that the first unclean spirit that Jesus confronts is in the holy place, the place of worship? And what marks this man? Though he is […]
Ed Peterman on Fear of Life You see, if you are afraid of dying, then you will be afraid of living, and you will be afraid to be compassionate and kind lest you be taken advantage of. You will be afraid to be lowly and meek for fear of being powerless. You will be afraid […]
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