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The Pursuit of Holiness
What does it mean for something to be holy? As part of an inductive exercise meant to answer the question, a professor of mine asked the class to picture the holiest person they knew, and to describe how holiness was made present in them. I have been incredibly fortunate to have met many saintly people,…
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Unity in Diversity?
As we say in the Creed, “I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.” In the first semester of my MDiv, this idea of catholicity has repeatedly come up, which has forced me to consider its meaning more intensely. What does it mean for the Church to be catholic? The easy answer: “universal”. The…
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What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me!)
Recently I finished reading Neil Gaiman’s children’s horror novel, Coraline. I remember seeing the movie as a child, and suffice it to say, it left me petrified. I’ve watched many horror movies since, but it’s undeniable: that stop-motion horror flick still gives me the creeps. Personally, I found the movie far scarier than the book,…
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What I Learned in ’22
Last last year, my spiritual director recommended I read God’s Voice Within written by Fr Mark Thibodeaux SJ. I practically devoured it, and since then I have been adamant in saying that this is the book I wish I’d read earlier in the year because, for me, 2022 was a year of discernment in epic…
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The City of God
Recently, a friend and I were caught up in discussion about the temptation of many Christians to dismiss cities as hotbeds of degeneracy, cesspools of Satan, and wretched hives of scum and villainy. (That last one’s from Star Wars!) It would be much better, in many minds, to retreat into the country, and avoid such…
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Choosing Heaven
This country was no use to him at all. Everyone here had ‘survived’ already. Nobody took the least interest in the question. There was nothing more to prove. His occupation was clean gone. Of course if he would only have admitted that he’d mistaken the means for the end and had a good laugh at…
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Merry Christmas, everyone! I’d be remiss if I didn’t reflect—today of all days—on the spirit of the season: that is, the coming of the Lord, our Saviour, when he was born on this day thousands of years ago in a manger. That is, after all, what Christmas is all about. For us men, and for…
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The Four Last Things: Heaven
Advent is not only a time to prepare for Christmas: it is also a time to reflect on the Four Last Things (Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven) as I have done these past few weeks. I hope you’ve found these meditations helpful. And with only a few days until the Big One, I want to…
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Socrates, Jesus, and Truth
The first philosopher I fell in love with was Plato. In my undergrad, I took a number of courses about him and read a variety of his works. (I still haven’t read everything.) At first, I would have probably thought myself something of a Platonist, but as I furthered my studies, that changed. There are…
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