The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.