How can we trust that, despite all we go through, God hears us when we pray, “Grant, O harvest Lord, that we / Wholesome grain and pure may be”?
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With all the past persecutions of the Christians in mind, what does Jesus mean when he says, “Not a hair of your head will perish”?
Read MoreSo-called gender-inclusive language (such as using they instead of he or people instead of men) theologically excludes individuals, both men and women, from salvation.
Read MoreThere is no “heaven” and “earth” as we’ve commonly come to understand them; harps and clouds on the one hand and unimportant physical matter on the other. Earth is charged with the grandeur of God, and we can learn to see His character and His workmanship crackling through every fiber of the world we live in.
Read MorePerhaps the best form of resistance comes from those who, together and in community, deliberately and decisively resist the demands for the body's submission to the Security State.
Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity 35/3 (May/June 2022): 21–22.
Here on earth, we may be tempted to believe the lie that the only reality is division and hatred, destruction and death. But the resurrection of Jesus puts us back in the Garden of Eden.
Read MoreJudas’s kiss was deeply painful, for his kiss was a betrayal, not just of a symbol, not just of a friend, but of the Kiss himself. Judas used a kiss to betray his Kiss.
Read MoreI'm going to make a plea for a retrieval of sin, a theology of personal sin that through compunction and introspection yields purification and healing.
Read MoreWhat is the more serious legal offense: to peacefully protest vax mandates and QR passports or to pressure and coerce people into submission, grievously violating the very heart of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, withholding all public travel from the unvaxxed, and imprisoning people for so-called violent rhetoric?
Read MoreBoth Catholics and Protestants, therefore, end up championing the notion that the beatific vision is a uniquely Catholic notion. They are both wrong.
Read MoreChristians are called to obey God first, man second. When human laws (whether civil or ecclesial) conflict with laws that God gives in nature or Scripture (natural or divine law), the latter have priority over the former. Sometimes Christians are called to civil disobedience.
Read MoreDuring a pandemic, we are to keep our eye on the soul, for pandemics can harm the soul even more than the body.
Read MoreThis year, I’m taking the vaccine called contemptus mundi (contempt for the world).
Read MoreVaccine passport mandates violate the unity of the body of Christ; as such, they are a most egregious denial of the heart of the gospel.
Read MoreIt is as if heaven itself turns down to the earth, while simultaneously, the earth turns up to the sky. The kiss of righteousness and peace is the Advent kiss of the hypostatic union of God and man.
Read MoreObsessive cultural fear of physical suffering and death has blinded and immobilized us, like prisoners staring at the end of the cave.
Read MoreSacramental ontology is to metaphysics what sacramental exegesis is to hermeneutics: Christian Platonism allows us to read both creation and Scripture as theophanies—or, I should perhaps say, as Christophanies. Far from denigrating either the Old Testament or the created order, Christian Platonists recognize them as divine.
Read MoreWhat we need is the boldness of the early disciples. For theirs was a boldness founded upon divine conspiracy, the true antidote to today’s totalitarian impulse.
No matter how dangerous, we dare not avoid the therapeutic gospel, for we need the Spirit to heal the passions of our souls.
In some ways, we do read the Bible like any other book. But this observation comes after the recognition of God’s providential economy in Christ.