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“The Church will endure until the end of time. We have the Word of God on that. But how and where she survives is another matter. “The question,” as one scholar suggested, “is whether her life in our time will…

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“The point of this work and the Christian life as a whole is not burden and drudgery, but joy. Jesus”

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“This post-Christian confusion—MacIntyre calls it “emotivism”—now shapes American public life. In such an environment, the purpose of moral discourse, he writes, “[becomes] the attempt of one will to align the attitudes, feelings, preferences and choices of another with its own.” Other people become instruments to be dominated and used. They’re means to achieve our ends, not ends in themselves.6 As…

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“We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.”

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“As with democratic politics, the market is a mass of individuals making discrete choices within a framework shaped by larger forces, over which they…

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“We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit.”

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“in a chapter on “repairing God’s house,” they’ll find no new ideas for projects, programs, studies, procedures for nominating bishops, committees, structures, offices, synods, councils, pastoral plans, changed teaching, new teaching, budget realignments, sweeping reforms, or reshuffled personnel. None of those things matter. Or rather, none of them is essential. The only thing essential, to borrow a thought from the…

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“Parents often complain that America’s education establishment abuses the classroom and misuses their children by preaching new moral orthodoxies on a whole range of…

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“One of Christianity’s key contributions to Western civilization was to give men and women a sense of freedom from the whims of fate, a…

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“One of the ways in which a good Christian marriage mirrors the divine is that, just as God’s love overflowed into creation, so the…

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“It also attracts thousands of others to the faith. Bland secular platitudes, consumer junk, and cheap nihilism feed nobody’s soul. These things strangle the…

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“When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.”

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“The late distinguished sociologist Robert Nisbet, following Tocqueville, argued that when the forces of personal liberation are dominant in a culture, the result is…

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