February 4, 2014
Adopting thankfulness as one’s orientation toward human experience and history requires a hermeneutic grounded in virtue and asceticism, open to both societal reform and moral progress.
December 31, 2013
The Ecumenical Patriarch’s brief treatment of virginity, alongside the sanctity of life and the good of the family, highlights its importance as a witness to the world of humanity’s transcended destiny.
December 23, 2013
How ought Christians to view theologians or pastors whose life at times fell sorely short of their own teachings or calling?
December 13, 2013
Busyness can be the adversary of Advent, but it need not be. Instead, the season can be a time for us to examine and practice how our busyness itself can be transfigured by the life of the Church for both the kingdom of God and the common good.
November 4, 2013
While Immanuel Kant is often uncharitably dismissed by some conservative Christians, St. Athenagoras’s defense of the resurrection gives reason to take a second look at Kant.
September 25, 2013
This essay focuses on the role of meditation, the Jesus Prayer in particular, in cultivating justice in the soul and how that might also affect our communities and societies.
August 22, 2013
Given the challenge of the Cappadocian fathers that what we have in abundance belongs to the needy, this article summarizes some essential principles and then offers a few rules of prudence to help guide our application in our contemporary context.
July 16, 2013
Is the marriage debate having an unintended, negative cultural effect? Is an already marginalized demographic being further neglected?
