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

When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.

The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."

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

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.