Soul-Shaking Wonder at the Incarnation

Soul-Shaking Wonder at the Incarnation

One of the most remarkable features of human reality is how the supernatural relates to the natural. At once, the supernatural brings out what was somehow latent (and in a sense waiting!) in the natural, even as it stunningly transcends, and so also elevates and...
Remembering I Am Dust

Remembering I Am Dust

Somehow I must learn to put the spiritual life first—truly first—while also giving due to my bodily life. Human life is unified—or in any case it can and should be unified. But this means there is also a genuine duality. Thomas Aquinas, a master of expressing the...
Aristotle on the Divine in Us

Aristotle on the Divine in Us

The great Greek maxim “Know thyself” surely has two distinct but related aspects. Both are very challenging and call for intentional, regular reflection. The first is to know what it is to be human; the second is to know myself as an individual. For the first the key...
Manners: A Lost Key in Raising Children

Manners: A Lost Key in Raising Children

Although the lack of manners today is generally noted with disapproval, we often do not think of manners as a central feature of how we raise our children. But manners are arguably the major instance of a concrete, tangible thing we are failing to pass on, to the...

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