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I have written here since 2010 on evangelization, parish life, Scripture, apologetics, and the moral life. These six are the best place to begin.
Go Home and Live as Missionary Disciples
If your faith feels humdrum, you may not have entered the mission yet. A talk to men on what that asks of you.
Formed By Distraction
Eliot described minds pulled from one distraction to the next. We now carry that in our pockets. What is it forming in us?
What Is a Catholic?
A plain answer: who belongs to the Church Christ founded on the Apostles, and what holds that Church together.
Why You Need Your Men’s Group
Before asking whether men’s groups work, ask what problem they are meant to solve.
Why Protestants Are Becoming Catholic at My Parish
What draws evangelicals and mainline Protestants into the Catholic Church, as they told me in class.
How God Speaks in Human Words
The first of four articles on how the Bible is at once a human book and the Word of God.
How God Speaks in Human Words
This is the first in a four-part series of articles on the relationship between the human elements of the Scriptures and the divine elements. This article introduces the magisterial documents and teachings on biblical interpretation that uses historical methods and critical methods to interpret the sacred authors.
“Go Home and Live as Missionary Disciples”
If your faith feels humdrum, the likely reason is that you have not entered the mission. You are not doing anything that risks something of you or asks something of you. I know this because it described me about six years ago.
Faith and Works
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser" (John 15:1). Jesus is the vine, and we are branches that come off the one true vine. I always remind people that there is no salvation if Christ is merely in the top ten or top three branches of our lives. Salvation comes only when we surrender to him fully and realize that we are the branches. This is a call beyond lukewarm discipleship or cultural Christianity. Cut off from Christ the vine, the branch withers and dies, because it is deprived of the vine's life-giving power.
The Church: A City Set on a Hill
When we think of "church," a thousand images may pass through our minds: a humble country chapel, a splendid cathedral, the congregation, families at a wedding, the hierarchy, prayer, the Body of Christ, an institution, a movement, something visible, something invisible, sacraments, worship, service, preaching, teaching, discipleship, and on and on.
These images shape our understanding of the Church…