Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XIV
God, Who Is, did not create anything for its usefulness to Himself, but simply to be loved by Him.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XIII
“To continue living forever—endlessly—appears more like a curse than a gift.”
Will Hoyt: Wayfarer in a New World
Hoyt’s latest book is a last shot across the bow of the ship, warning us about the fast approaching and all engrossing technocratic world.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XII
Ultimately, all the awful things now impacting our lives will be swallowed up by time. We can instead set our minds on God, Whom time cannot mar.
On Sanctifying Sodomy
The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-drooping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XI
Why do we pay attention to atheists when they condescend to tell us the truth about God, which is that He does not exist? Or anything at all touching on matters of the spirit, when they make no provision for it in their system?
Fear and Wonder in the Upper Room
How many souls are there for whom salvation is less than a half-minute away! If only, that is, they allow themselves to be awakened from the sleep of sin long enough to be surprised by grace.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part X
There will never be a time, therefore, when even the best and the brightest bulbs among us shall know all that there is to know concerning God.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part IX
The ‘God question’ grips every person inescapably, for none so much, ironically, as the proclaimed atheist.
Where God Weeps
It is not only seemly but profoundly human for a grown man to weep in solidarity with our suffering savior, who wept in solidarity with our human suffering.
From Birth to Death to Life
The loss of everything we love to the ultimate arbiter of life – death – is ultimately what makes the Good News good.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part VIII
The Platonic world of Forms was shattered by God, bursting down through the clouds to enter into the womb of a young Jewish girl!
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part VII
Between the omnipotence of God, who holds all creation in being, and the impotence of men, who possess no claim whatsoever on being, there remains an impassible barrier which no creature may presume to breach.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part VI
Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans that we clearly know God through His creation, so how is it that so many can’t do just that?
Looking Toward Lent
Lent is coming upon us quickly this year! Will we sit still long enough to slow it down, or just let another one pass us by?
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part V
There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival.
Telling Our Story
Every Christian, great and small, across two millennia, in every tribe and nation, has heard the warn-out taunt about believing in fairy tales.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part IV
Modern scientific atheism (A.K.A. scientism) is just a dogmatic assertion that dismisses God, meaning, and purpose, reducing the universe to a mindless chaos of accidental stuff.
Did It Happen or Not?
The reality of Emmanuel, God with us, demands a response from both those who believe and those who don’t.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part III
Most Christians, including Paul, would say the Resurrection is the basis of our entire faith, but without creation, there can be no Incarnation or Resurrection.