There's no way up but down.

There's no way up but down.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.