We need to respect time and its Author. Indeed, one of God’s first acts in Creation was establishing the parameters of time. When Congress votes to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, we put ourselves at the center of things. The issue is time. Daylight Saving Time. Congress is again attempting to make it permanent. If [...]
The books we read this past year in the high-school class I dubbed “Evil 12” so accurately portray evil—whether horrific and nightmarish or subtle and uncanny—that they lead the reader to recognize and love goodness all the more. Indeed, each conveys the depths of both evil and goodness in imitation of the Gospel. This past [...]
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 [...]
The Major Oak, like Robin Hood and Maid Marian, has died. Its death is felt even more deeply because of what it signifies. Its death seems to signify the death of England itself. Imagine for a moment that you are in Middle-earth. Imagine what you would think or feel were you to be told that [...]
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 [...]
If you’re doing the work that’s given you for the glory of God your work is just as important as the Prime Minister’s. And it ought to be a consolation to those of us whom ill-health has knocked out of life’s battle altogether, so that God seems to have no work for us to do [...]
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 [...]
C.S. Lewis believes in the laws of nature, but he argues that miracles do not violate them because miracles are done by the Creator of the natural world Himself. Miracles are, therefore, exceptions to the laws of nature. The Great Commission commands all Christians to share the Gospel with non-Christians. Different groups of non-Christians want [...]
Why do our lives happen this way or that? Are they meaningless? For four thousand winters Adam lay bound, bound by death, bound in death. So the medieval English hymn Adam lay ybounden has it. Not much is known about the hymn other than the parchment it is preserved on and speculations of its provenance. That is enough for our [...]
God’s love is deepest in us, as the very ground of our being. It is here in our deepest self that our desire to love and be loved that will only ultimately be satisfied in God, rises to enter into him. Inspired by and supported with as much of God’s love that our weakness can [...]
Saint John of the Cross restores, to a world which had nearly lost it, a sense of the transcendence of Almighty God. This is not to say that he loses sight for a moment of the Divine immanence, a subject which no mystical work treats with more delicacy and insight than the Spiritual Canticle. But [...]
Jesus Christ remains absolutely central to the life of the Church and, indeed, to the whole created order of the universe. In a Catholic economy of salvation, the two orders of nature and grace, of man and God, are not sundered one from the other. Jesus became the Savior of both realms, and God meant [...]