Sublime

Liturgy is the way we learn to “put on” Christ (Col. 3:12–16).

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

the future of the church is ancient:

To read Augustine in the twenty-first century is to gain a vantage point that makes all of our freedom look like addiction.

The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.

As the twentieth-century Serbian Orthodox monk Thaddeus of Vitovnica writes, “Everything is constantly changing; nothing remains static.”

I’m not who I used to be; I’m on the way to being who I’m called to be; but I’m not there yet, Augustine counsels.

“The extreme greatness of Christianity,” wrote Simone Weil, “lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.”