Christians, one would presume, should never deliberately offend people, or deliberately irritate them. Yet, today, it seems, many non-Christians find everything about Christianity “offensive.” Curiously, in one of the very earliest Christian documents, the Letter of Pope St. Clement to the Corinthians, we are actually told to “offend” people -......
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When the going gets tough, Christians do not retreat, but go into battle. Times may be difficult, but the Lord promised “He who endures to the end will be saved.” It is how we face seeming disaster that distinguishes us from those who have no faith or hope. Desperate times......
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St. Paul, writing to Timothy in his second letter, from prison where he is “in chains” for preaching the Good News, reminds Timothy that the Word of God cannot be chained. As St. John Henry Newman wrote, a “great mischief,” or chain today, is the doctrine that all creeds are......
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For all in the English-speaking world, and especially for this who have English roots, or a connection with England, knowledge of the great saints of the Anglo-Saxon period is very important. This week we look at why that is the case, and what a true “reset” might look like.
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