We shouldn’t ask the very people who despise our culture, who are determined on its destruction, to instruct us on all that is noble and good. When I hear the word culture,” bristled Hermann Göring, “I reach for my revolver.” Since he was, after Adolf Hitler, the second most powerful man in the Third Reich, [...]
There will never be a time when even the best and the brightest bulbs among us shall know all that there is to know concerning God. I am not yet so lost in lexicography,” writes Dr. Johnson on introducing his acclaimed Dictionary of the English Language, “as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, [...]
The 'God question' grips every person inescapably, for none so much, ironically, as the proclaimed atheist. The trouble with atheists, to quote a punch line I once heard, is that they are constantly talking about God. Perhaps it’s the occupational hazard that comes with the job. And, yet, to endlessly obsess about Him, one might [...]
The Platonic world of Forms was shattered by God, bursting down through the clouds to enter into the womb of a young Jewish girl! Picture yourself sitting alongside Plato at a local Greek restaurant, a couple of gyros between the two of you. What do you say? Is there anything you know that could possibly [...]
Between the omnipotence of God, who holds all creation in being, and the impotence of men, who possess no claim whatsoever on being, there remains an impassible barrier which no creature may presume to breach. Even the best and the brightest among us are forced to submit to that exigent fact. So utterly ill-equipped are [...]
Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans that we clearly know God through His creation, so how is it that so many can't do just that? In his imaginary account of “The Unthinkable Theory of Professor Green,” a tale as fantastical as anything Mr. G.K. Chesterton has ever spun, we are shown a place [...]
There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival. The great metaphysical truth on which the whole of Sacred Scripture opens, and to which everything from beginning to end testifies, is that the [...]
There are some ideas so plainly preposterous, so spectacularly stupid, that only an astrophysicist of atheist persuasion could possibly believe them. And when will we stop listening to such people, I’d like to know—all these self-styled experts eager to tell us how little we know? Especially about the origins of the universe, concerning which they [...]
Most Christians, including Paul, would say the Resurrection is the basis of our entire faith, but without creation, there can be no Incarnation or Resurrection. If you were to randomly ask an average Christian, even one who does not routinely pray, pay, or obey, what is the greatest miracle of all, chances are that the answer [...]
While scientific inquiry and advances have changed the world we live in, it does not have the power to penetrate even a centimeter into the primary question of God. There once lived a rather tiresome New England transcendentalist by the name of Margaret Fuller, reputed to have been America’s first feminist, who had fallen early [...]
True union with God comes not by escaping time but by coursing through it with Christ, its creator and consummator. If God is the author of time, and if by His divine decree we find ourselves immersed in time, fated to swim amid the ebb and flow of temporality, is it even thinkable that God [...]