Two Cultures: Faith and Reason
Faith and reason, first of all, are not to be taken for granted.
Faith and reason, first of all, are not to be taken for granted.
It took me fifty years to find my way home (to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church), though only twenty-three to get pointed in the right general direction.
My belief in God is not philosophical. It is not rooted in metaphysics or reason. It springs from the heart and the senses. It is practical.
Not only are divine love and human passion not incompatible; there is no truly Christian faith and experience that does not have passionate love at its center.
Simon's heart was racing from effort and emotion, and he gasped for breath as he made his way through the fish to where Jesus was sitting in the stern.
We tend to be static, obstinate, obdurate — all the things that separate us from Jesus, who is always on the move.
Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?
Doubt not, then, his power to bring you through any difficulties, who gives you the command to encounter them.