Everything that we as humans can conceive of exists in some form. Even though our fantasies, such as unicorns, mermaids, and Star Trek aliens, don’t actually exist they are pieced together from parts of things that do. The unicorn is made up of a horse and a...
I recently finished reading a book called “Your Church is too Small” (Why Unity in Christ’s Mission is Vital to the Future of the Church). The writer was seeking to unite Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians.His message to Protestants was to...
Life is a constant struggle against both spiritual and physical death and its meaning for our lives. Spiritual death has to do with our loss of the image and likeness of God and our union with Him. Physical death has to do with hunger, thirst, cold, heat, disease, the...
Original sin cut us off from the continual contemplation and vision of God, and instead filled our minds with contemplation of ourselves (and the world) as things in and of themselves without God. Today, because of sin, we think that contemplation of ourselves (and...
The abortion debate centers on whether or not a human person is being killed during the procedure. Pro-lifer’s say that the baby is a human person from conception, while pro-choicer’s say that the embryo/fetus has the potential to reach personhood but is yet to do so....
Modern man’s attempt to understand life through observation, logic, and reason has been an abject failure. On the one hand, if we wish to discover why leaves turn color in the fall, applying logic and reason to what we observe makes sense. On the other hand, if we are...
