Augustine’s Confessions take up a theme still at the center of our lives: Does our intelligence lead us to something beyond ourselves?

In our baptism, each of us has been chosen. So many others in this world have not. We must constantly ask ourselves: Why?

We use the words “mystery” and “miracle” not to say that science has been stumped but rather to express the expansive claim that an event makes upon us.

“It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs,” Jesus told her. Yet she is not repelled by his parable. She engages it.

Like Peter, we might envy the one who walks on water, thinking that more control of our lives is all that we need.

We like to fancy ourselves as free from an enveloping world.