Why might you find yourself praying to your deceased grandmother rather than to Christ? Because in your story she is another Christ, not an alternative Christ.

We all yearn for love, so it is a small wonder that sometimes we fall in love with the notion of love before we meet someone whom we can love genuinely. The same can happen in our relationship with God.

We do not simply submit because someone must rule. Having been given some say, we must strive to speak according to what we think Christ would have us say.

Listening to the lives of others, the confessor sees the work of the unseen Spirit. He sees saints in the making, holy ones in the flesh.

How much time does one need to prepare? How much labor does it involve? More than we realize.

God being God includes God not being who we are. How can someone who is not us not surprise us?

Never presume that you are one of the early hires and that Jesus offers his parable only to curb your jealousy of late arrivals. No, we all come so late in the day.

When we speak of minds, can someone who would reduce consciousness to biology offer an adequate picture of what it means for us to know something?

God shows the way in the incarnation.

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