Pick the One You Find Least Attractive

"For some people, conversion is a call to arms to fight the enemy, but for others, it is a call to fight oneself and have a beer with the enemy." - Anthony Esolen

The Infallible Rule for Life

I grew up in a culture that wore this bumper sticker slogan proudly:

"God said it. I believe it. That settles it."

I wonder how my world would have been different if instead it had been:

"God commands it. I obey it. That settles it."

I think maybe better.

Living Liturgy

When the members of his synagogue complained that the words of the liturgy did not express what they felt, Abraham Heschel, the great philosopher of religion, replied wisely and very Biblically. He told them that the liturgy wasn’t supposed to express what they felt; they were supposed to feel what the liturgy expressed. To be taught by the Bible to pray is to learn to want and feel what the Bible expresses—to say what it means and mean what it says. God’s Prayer Book, 7