The problem with Christians, Charles Péguy (reportedly) once said, is that they don’t believe what they believe.  

Sentimentality comes in many forms, and one of them, nowadays the most prevalent, is the deliberate elevation of emotion over thought. 

My mama turns one hundred today. 

"I don't ever want to be a priest," I said to myself with conviction as my elementary school teacher handed out the Lenten "mite boxes" with the name and photo of a seminarian printed on one side. 

I once had the unenviable task of explaining to Thomas Howard what the alt-right is.

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Benjamin Franklin" 

Friends are not usually mentors. 

"The courage of men is to command, so that no fear cause them to fail to order what should be done…" - Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics

The word gentleman has fallen into disrepute, along with the word man. 

When sharing or defending the faith, we can never overlook the power of our own testimony: evidence of how God has worked in our own lives.