I used to ask myself what persecuted, or down-and-out, or depressed Christians had to hope for. Sure, heaven. That is big. But the difficulty with heaven, pace the “Christian Children’s Literature” I had read, full of pious heroines, and little boys who died from being hit by carriages while helping old women across streets and [...]

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Faith to end.
The true terror of being born has nothing to do with pain, blood, or breathing for the first time. When I wake tomorrow and see the sun’s light filtered through the plastic cells of my window-fan, I will not be afraid of that light. I have seen it before. I have been warmed [...]

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On Mondays, in contrast to Wednesdays and Fridays, we will be pursuing a more topical sort of study. Today we’ll look at the intersection of some ideas between a sermon by John Henry Newman (known for his spectacular conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, and for his noble explanation of that move in the book Apologia [...]

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