Do you tend to look for your worth in what you do, what you have and what people say about you? This leads to a painful, meaningless existence. Henri Nouwen brings a powerful message about our identity in God. We are the beloved sons and daughters of God. We are chosen, loved, taken and blessed [more]

In his foreword to the 1958 Image Books edition of The City of God by Augustine, Etienne Gilson wrote: “Our contemporaries aspire after a complete unity of all peoples: one world. They are quite right. The universal society which they are endeavoring to organize aims at being a political and temporal society. In this regard [more]

“Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the ‘correct opinions about God’ – ‘fundamentalism’ is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry – but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry [more]

It is easy to convince people that house church just might be the answer to all of what they desire in body life, that is until they get involved in one. It quickly becomes evident that meeting in a home isn’t necessarily all it’s cracked up to be. What do we do about the people [more]

God’s mercy is greater than our sins. There is an awareness of sin that does not lead to God but rather to self-preoccupation. Our temptation is to be so impressed by our sins and our failings and so overwhelmed by our lack of generosity that we get stuck in paralyzing guilt. It is the guilt [more]

A recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that Facebook is cited in one in five divorces in the United States. More than 80 percent of divorce lawyers reported a rising number of people are using social media to engage in extramarital affairs. “We’re coming across it more and more,” said licensed [more]

The Opiate Mass is a Seattle-based collaboration of musicians, songwriters, visual artists, audio engineers, and authors that is devoted to making beautiful and intelligent religious music. In their words: Our curated space is about beauty and it is a priestly thing… it’s becoming an encompassing space for people to interact freely. It’s beauty in the [more]

Lent started on Wednesday, the 9th of March 2011 and will continue for 46 days until Saturday, the 23rd of April. Lent is a spiritual journey and its destination is Easter (Pascha) – the feast of the Resurrection of Christ. The essence of the Paschal mystery of Christ is his death and subsequent resurrection from [more]

A mourner must have felt his cheeks burning after his phone went off during a funeral. But when the ringtone that echoed round the church was Staying Alive by the Bee Gees, it is fair to say he wished the earth could have swallowed him up. It took a while before people realised what the [more]

‘Light Shower’ is UK-based artist Bruce Munro’s sculptural work in the highest spire of the Salisbury Cathedral. The installation consists of 2, 000 shimmering points of light or teardrop diffusers, each set at the end of a fiber optic thread, all cascading downwards from the cathedral’s spire crossing. Within the cathedral, which dates back to [more]