Within all things, there is the quiet hymn, “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life…”

Among the most appealing aspects of CS Lewis’ children’s fiction is at the point that I would describe as “turning the corner.” It is not that he creates a fantasy world, but that the fantasy world he creates somehow intersects with the world in which we live. It is the […]

The statement, “God is useless,” is, undoubtedly, sure to strike someone as an insult, not a statement of a faithful believing Christian (much less, a priest). That reaction tells me much about how we feel about the word, “useless,” rather than how we feel about God. In current American parlance, […]

Few people think of Christmas as the End of the World. We have one set of feelings and thoughts for the former and another set for the latter. Christmas, taken by itself, seems quite harmless and able to be adopted or adapted (in one way or another) by cultures at […]

I live in a beautiful part of the country – the Tennessee Valley. On one side of the valley are the Smokey Mountains, part of the Appalachian chain. On the other side of the valley are the Cumberland Mountains, ancient relics of a once great sea. The Cumberlands, true to […]

Being human is a cultural event. No one is human by themselves and no one becomes human without the help of those around them.

There is a deep connection between God and the self within Christian understanding. Obviously, they are not the same thing.

Near the dawn of the modern period (1500’s), the Reformation set in motion a world of ideas. If the old world of Medieval Catholicism was to be discarded (reformed), what should take its place? The earliest answers were largely those allowed and dictated by the various political states of Europe: […]

It is inherently the nature of giving thanks that thanks must be given to someone. I cannot give thanks to nothing or no one.

One of the oddest thoughts to have crept its way into the Christian mind is the notion of what is “necessary to salvation.”

The soul cannot be observed like the liver or the heart. It is a quality that makes the brain more than a biological calculator.

We do not create relationships, nor do we have them. We are relationships and we either perceive this and pay attention or we do not.