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July 2025

July 02, 2025

Multiple Interpretations: The Key To Richer Text Engagement

Why Every Reading Is Interpretation: The Hidden Process Every time we read a text, we...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Prophets And Justice: A Reflection On Modern Injustices

When I was young, my primary understanding of the value of the prophets was in...

June 29, 2025

Embracing Inclusivity: Lessons From Peter and Paul

Peter and Paul are remembered for the way they helped establish and develop the structures...

June 26, 2025

Heaven And The Kingdom Of God

Historically, many considered talk about heaven, or the heavens above, to be a purely physical...

June 25, 2025

How I Learned To Give God A Name

I became a Byzantine Catholic in my junior year of college. At that time, and...

June 23, 2025

Some Christians Embrace A Death Cult Mentality With Trump

It’s hard not to believe that much of Trump’s support comes from those who embrace...

June 22, 2025

God’s Work Among Nations: Understanding Salvation History

God has been and continues to be at work with all the nations of the...

June 20, 2025

Becoming The Person God Intends Us To Be

Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but we are not. We, at least...

June 18, 2025

Seek Not Fame Or Fortune, But The Will Of God

Jesus frequently told us to make sure our intentions are good and pure, that we...

June 17, 2025

Pacifism Must Embrace Justice In Its Peacebuilding

One of the things I came to appreciate after I became Catholic was the importance...

June 15, 2025

Byzantine Saints: Embracing Divine Holiness Through Grace

Celebrating The Saints Throughout the Easter season, the Byzantine (Catholic and Orthodox) calendar gave us...

June 12, 2025

Navigating The Noise: Embracing Silence In Modern Life

We have found it difficult to embrace silence, and yet times of silence are necessary...

June 10, 2025

Everyone Has Worth, No One Needs To Prove It

Back when I was living in Silver Spring, Maryland, doing doctoral studies at the Catholic...

June 08, 2025

Christians Are Called To Resist Authoritarianism In America

I read the news today, oh boy. Woke up, got out of bed, washed up,...

June 08, 2025

Pentecost: The Holy Spirit And Its Impact on Humanity

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Love. In the Godhead, the Spirit is often...

June 06, 2025

From Prayer To Praxis: Engaging God’s Will

Prayer is an important part of the Christian life. There are many ways to pray,...

June 04, 2025

The Conditional Nature of Judgment: Insights From Jonah

J.R.R. Tolkien, who worked on a translation of the book of Jonah for the Jerusalem...

June 03, 2025

Addressing The Crises Of Contemporary Catholicism

While Catholics have been told that the institutional church should be always reforming, many feel...

June 01, 2025

The Quest For The Words To Express Faith in Jesus

“And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

Jesus’s Ascension: Bridging Heaven And Earth

It could be said that the final act of Jesus’s temporal ministry was not his...

May 28, 2025

 Icons And Divine Energy: Experiencing The Light Of God

Icons are often described, quite properly, as windows into heaven, because they reveal to us...

May 26, 2025

Republicans, Christianity, and the One Big Bill Act

It shouldn’t surprise me, but it still does. Republicans use religion, especially Christianity, as a...

May 25, 2025

How Are We Like The Man Born Blind?

We are born in this world with a kind of spiritual blindness; that is, we...

May 23, 2025

Living the Divine Liturgy: How Worship Shapes Our Actions

When worship God in the Divine Liturgy (or the Mass, as the West calls it,...

May 21, 2025

To Know Ourselves We Need To Know Ourselves As Persons

We are called to know ourselves, for in knowing ourselves, we will come to know...

May 20, 2025

The Choice Between Trump Or Christ, Cruelty Or Love

Christ taught Christians to embrace selfless love, a love which would lead them to be...

May 18, 2025

The Holy Spirit: A Gift For The Humble

Persecution, though never a good in and of itself, can sometimes inspire the church to...

May 15, 2025

The Paradox of Truth: Many Paths Leading To One God

The absolute truth, the truth which can be described as the divine reality from which...

May 14, 2025

My Initial Thoughts On Pope Leo XIV

When I heard Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was chosen to become pope, I, like many,...

May 12, 2025

Nationalism In Christianity: Plurality Versus Supremacy

Nationalism can have a few different connotations, some which are positive, and some which are...

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