When the "rubber" of belief meets the "road" of decision, a choice has to be made.

It used to be said that the priest "made" holy water; he did not simply bless it. 

Confusion is bad. It's bad for the individual soul, and it's bad for the health of a society. 

Preach the gospel at all times. The use of words is necessary.

Artists rarely think that they have completed a work.

As a demographic cohort, "Millennials" are the last generation to have been born in the twentieth century.

The German word "kitsch" is hard to define, other than "tacky" or "tasteless."

Stripping away the niceties with a sling blade, Ulrich Lehner shows that God is more strange and beautiful than we imagine, and wants to know and transform us in the most intimate way. 

"God is not nice."

In the late 1990s I watched the rebuilding of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, replicating the nineteenth-century cathedral that had been dynamited by Stalin in 1931.