After the wild revival in the naveI went home feeling stupid since the resthad got it. Why was I no good to save?My brain was grasping like an atheist: how can you know one climbed out of a tomband all the dead will wake as if they’d slept?“You back?” came probing from my brother’s room.I . . . . Continue Reading »
The real meaning of “faith” can be discovered in the writings of John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
The prospect of mortality shakes even the firmest faith. Continue Reading »
Then, for three years, I traveled wherever Grace traveled. Wherever she went, I went, and after she prayed for my husband in Tarrytown, he wanted to go with me, for reasons I assumed were the same as mine. For three years her ministry was our church, and Ross came, too, and read some during the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Kingdom by emmanuel carrère farrar, straus and giroux, 400 pages, $28 The genius and the apostle are alike, according to Kierkegaard, in that both bring new ideas into the world. But there’s a crucial difference. Geniuses are ahead of their time, and, consequently, the knowledge they bring . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s laypeople hunger to know the faith more intelligently. They thirst for rigorous catechesis, they have a strong faith, and they are more courageous. Continue Reading »
Reading Ink, I was taken back to the churches I attended in Pomona, California in the 1950s. Continue Reading »
Does our eternal salvation depend on the concrete acceptance of the truths of faith? Continue Reading »
All religions today share a single, common “Ultimate” beyond them all—the set of ideas about God implied by Christian religiosity. Continue Reading »
In giving voice to faith’s role in the West, Donald Trump’s Poland speech was no mere dog whistle. Continue Reading »
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