The apostle to the Gentiles proclaimed the gospel to a multicultural and embattled world very much like ours. Here are some things we can learn from him as we enter more deeply into a time of persecution.

We live in the…

For most people, the one-room schoolhouse is just something out of the history books. For 11 students in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, the one-room schoolhouse is a living reality. Their tiny, brand-new school, Chesterton Academy, is an experiment that could…

Psalm 133:1

Behold, how good and pleasant it is

when brothers dwell in unity!

“Catholics,” said G. K. Chesterton, “agree about everything.  It is only everything else they disagree about.”  In other words, those who belong to the Catholic faith have in common…

Father Christian Troll, a German Jesuit, is one of the Catholic Church’s leading students of Islam and a key figure in the Catholic-Islamic dialogue launched by Pope Benedict XVI’s September 2006 Regensburg Lecture. Speaking recently at Cambridge University, Father Troll…

It used to be that every time one of my children started a conversation with the words, “Hey mom, can I talk to you about something,” I braced myself for a question about sex.

Now I hold onto my hat for…

1 John 2:6

Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

St. John begins his account of the miracle at the wedding in Cana by noting (John 2:1) that it happened…

The ad ran all over California on Election Day-and surely sets a record for anti-religious bigotry. Two clean-cut young men knock at the door of a lesbian couple. The men identify themselves as Mormon missionaries. “We’re here to take away…

Hebrews 3:16

Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Woody Allen once remarked that he wasn’t afraid of dying, he just didn’t want to be there when…

2 Corinthians 10:4

For the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

Joseph Stalin once sneered, “How many divisions does the Pope have?”  He was a materialist and supremely confident that the only real things…

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all vigilance;
for from it flow the springs of life.

Years after our culture has absorbed the elementary lessons of hygiene in the physical and environmental realms, we remain perfect babes in the wood when it comes…