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.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part II
While scientific inquiry and advances have changed the world we live in, it does not have the power to penetrate even a centimeter into the primary question of God.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part I
True union with God comes not by escaping time but by coursing through it with Christ, its creator and consummator.
Without Faith There Is No Future
France really is the purest distillate of what postmodern man actually looks like. It is not a pretty sight.
A Last Word on Catholic Culture
Christopher Dawson’s legacy was to document as learnedly as he knew how both the natural and the necessary connection between religion and culture.
The Irrepressibility of Innocence
Who was this extraordinary young woman, Joan of Arc? And why should it matter that, nearly six centuries after her death, that homage be paid to her memory?
Giving the World a Christian Shape
There is no Christian culture if the Church commissioned to preach into it falls silent, or worse.
Grounding the State in the Christian Creed
A culture without public prayer is a culture that no political intervention can preserve.
Optimizing Human Fulfillment
A well-ordered society requires the presence of three essential relationships: man’s connection to the world, to one another, and to God.