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September 2017

September 29, 2017

Penance Seeks To Restore The Good

Free will, as all things given to us by God, is good. When it is...

September 25, 2017

Reflecting Upon The Seamless Garment

Just as truth does not contradict truth, and yet, truth separated and elevated in its...

September 21, 2017

When We Do Wrong, We Excuse It by the Good

No one does evil for the sake of being evil.

September 01, 2017

True Justice Is Distributive Not Retributive

The call of the Christian, the call of the one who has received forgiveness in...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Follow the Way to Greatness, Depart From It and Find Disaster

In the Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu (or whoever wrote and edited the text), often...

August 21, 2017

Discern the Way, Become Truly Rich, Lest You Suffer From Your Poverty of Character

When the poor are oppressed by those with wealth or power, when their weakness and...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

The Garbage Of Sin Covers Paradise

Good is always mixed with evil wherever evil is to be found, for evil thrives...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Sunday Of The Man Born Blind

This Sunday, the Byzantine tradition in its ongoing cycle of Paschal Sundays remembers the Man...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

On Rahab, Prostitute and Prophet of God

In listing the ancestors of Christ, Matthew brings forth a large variety of figures, among...

April 17, 2017

On Providence

Providence is an important, albeit, difficult concept to explore. Because we are dealing with the...

April 05, 2017

Virtue is Social

In The City of God, St. Augustine gave an extensive, although highly polemical, exploration of...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

There Can Be No End Apart From God

One of the more interesting theological debates of the twentieth century came from the question...

February 2017

February 13, 2017

Self-Deception Can Use A Good For Evil

Self-deception lies behind much, if not all, of the evil we do. There is always...

February 07, 2017

Avarice, The Rival God

In his “Four Books to the Church,” Salvian wrote what could be seen as a...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Social Justice, The Traditional Anti-Pelagian Praxis Of The Church

Social Justice is a major part of the Christian tradition. It forms one of the...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Idolize Not the Rich

Many members of society, especially in a capitalistic based one like the United States, have...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Ante-Nicene Ressourcement: Interpreting The Anger of God (Part 4 of 4)

This is the last of four posts looking to the way various Ante-Nicene Fathers engaged...

July 2016

July 09, 2016

Marian Reflections VIII: The Veneration of Mary (Part 3)

This is the third post on a series discussing the veneration of Mary. For the...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

Is Jesus a Good Teacher?

“And a ruler asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’...

June 02, 2016

Reflection on the Death of Harambe

The death of Harambe the gorilla is not anything which should be taken lightly. There...

June 01, 2016

The Light of the Resurrection Takes Us From Winter to Spring, From Glory to Eternal Glory

Jesus told us that he came to give us abundant life (cf. Jn. 10:10). Thanks...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Deception Pits Truth Against The Truth, Goodness Against The Good

Nothing guides us into error more readily than some partial truth taken out of the...

April 20, 2016

Even in a Civil War, Heroes Can Remain Heroes

In comic books, and in movies based upon them, conflicts between heroes makes for great...

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