Why Study Theology?
In an age of rampant specialization and outsourcing, it often seems that we are urged from every quarter to sit back and trust the experts
In an age of rampant specialization and outsourcing, it often seems that we are urged from every quarter to sit back and trust the experts
In the distant arcane past, in the dark expanse of ages before the ubiquity of reliable turn-by-turn navigation, people were obliged to use confoundedly confusable
Though we walk in plastic corridors and find ourselves in ever-further-detached expressions of what we dubiously label civilization, modern people depend in the same ways
As a body we have ascended at last from the shrouded valleys of Lent into the brilliant light of Christ’s Easter joy. For fifty glorious
These glorious forty days of Holy Lent can at times seem onerous. Depending on the rigor with which we assail the world, the flesh, and
As we cavort amid an embarrassingly secularized and confused society, unmoored as it stands from the threads of a shared past or the common experience
For those of us who walk on this side of Christ’s coming in the flesh, it can often be hard to place ourselves in the
In much of the West, the winter winds have begun to draw in and lead us, often wistfully, down nostalgic roads of a sort of
When Dostoyevsky wrote his famous line in The Idiot, amid the squalor and anxiety of an impending revolution, he could barely imagine the hell which
St. Thomas More is one of the most important figures of the tumultuous time of the Reformation in Europe. There are few saints who could
When the gravity of last year’s isolation began to set in on people, a few curious things happened. Obviously, we all became aware of the
The West, in particular our little corner of it here in the United States, is writhing through what is either the embarrassing throes of a
For perhaps a multitude of reasons, it seems like society has been systematically devolving into a web of tribal allegiances. People try with varying degrees of
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day (Matthew