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The More We Apprehend Of God, The Greater God Becomes For Us

God is incomprehensible; the more we apprehend of God, the more we will perceive God’s...

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June 25, 2026

Faith As Action: Connecting With Divine Truth

God is one, and God is one in a way which transcends all human comprehension....

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November 02, 2025

The Vague And The Profound

Not everything given to us in revelation is meant to be easily understood. There are...

August 2025

August 20, 2025

Finding Truth In Other Religions: A Call For Openness

Bede Griffiths, beginning his Christian commentary on the Gita, justified his work, in part, based...

August 18, 2025

The Fight For Truth: Defending History Against Trump

I don’t get it. How can anyone trust Donald Trump? His own history shows us...

May 2025

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...

March 2025

March 09, 2025

Icons And the Unity of Truth, Goodness, And Beauty

Philosophy traditionally tells us about three great transcendentals, that of the truth, the good, and...

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September 29, 2024

Translating The Truth Into Words

At the heart of the Christian faith is the teaching of the incarnation, and through...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

The Ecumenical Movement And Conventions

The modern ecumenical movement has brought about great insight into the Christian past as it...

December 13, 2023

St. Cyril Of Alexandria, Conventions, And The Truth

We must not confuse what we have apprehended of the truth and turned into some...

August 2023

August 31, 2023

In Politics And Religion, Sophistry Is Being Used To Defend Ideology

Sophists like to generate generalizations; through them, they find it easier to create the equivocations...

August 17, 2023

Proper Christian Education Should Not Be Confused With Apologetics

Those who have a message to sell will engage typical marketing tactics. They will try...

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June 09, 2023

Everyone Can Teach Us Something About God

Many Christians say that anyone who has a different understanding of God than the one...

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March 14, 2023

The Truth Does Not Need A Defense

St. Isidore of Seville understood the reason why so many people engage “apologetics.” It is...

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January 23, 2023

Most Debates Will Not Produce Faith

One of the worst approaches to the Christian faith is to treat it as if...

September 2022

September 12, 2022

Scholars, Monks, And The Truth

We can pursue the truth in many different ways, each of which has much to...

August 2022

August 23, 2022

Truth And Love

The truth is good. This is why the knowing and willing violation of the truth...

August 09, 2022

We Should Engage Deconstruction As A Way To Develop Our Faith

As our faith matures, we often come to realize that our faith, as we first...

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July 21, 2022

Truth And Compassion Are Necessary In Discussions On Abortion

Christians are expected to be “speaking the truth in love” (Eph. 4:15a RSV), for, as...

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May 16, 2022

Nicholas of Cusa And Our Apprehension Of The Transcendent Truth

Nicholas of Cusa reminds us of the vast difference between the absolute truth and the...

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February 14, 2022

Faith And The Hierarchy of Truth And Virtue

There are many teachings proclaimed by the Christian faith. While each have their value and...

November 2021

November 03, 2021

Reason, Arguments, And Truth

Faith and reason are both important; the two complement and correct each other, so that...

October 2021

October 26, 2021

The Serpent In The Garden And Theosis

Those who engage evil present themselves as good. They embrace elements of the good, elements...

October 18, 2021

The Monsters In The Shadows And The Light

It is darkest before the dawn, but once the light shines forth, what has been...

September 2021

September 20, 2021

The Conventional Truth Of Revelation

Scripture, the central book of the Christian faith, contains revelation, even though it was written...

July 2021

July 04, 2021

Just Because We State Facts Does Not Mean We Are Promoting The Truth

Everything good and true is good and true in its proper context. Outside of that...

June 2021

June 20, 2021

Transcendent Truth, Human Speech

Theology, no matter how sophisticated it is, no matter how transcendent the thinking behind it...

May 2021

May 05, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part Two: The Light of Truth

God, the unapproachable light of truth, draws us in; the more we engage the light,...

March 2021

March 15, 2021

Truth, Education, And Teaching Authority

Truth does not contradict truth, so long as the fullness of the truth remains the...

January 2021

January 07, 2021

Roger Bacon And The Four Obstacles To The Truth, Or, How Ignorance Causes Social Problems

Roger Bacon, a 13th century Franciscan philosopher-theologian, began his Opus Majus, “Major Work,” with a...

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