The twentieth-century philosopher Josef Pieper, noting that what is most important in a thinker’s work can go unnoticed by interpreters because it “goes without saying” for the author, goes on to say of Thomas Aquinas, “The notion of creation determines and characterizes the interior structure of nearly all the basic
Maurine Here’s an irony. In our day, when someone wants to change everything that is wrong with the world, they run for president. In the Book of Mormon, Alma, hoping to pull down the pride and craftiness and contentions among his people, saw no way to reclaim them except to give
When my wife and I lived in Leavenworth, Kansas in the nineties, we had the great privilege to work in the prisons there. Leavenworth is a prison town, as is its abutting neighbor, Lansing. In Leavenworth one finds two federal civilian prisons, the historic “Big House” (so named for the
Subscribe Now The Transformative Power of Worship: Insights on Gathering as the Body of Christ In this episode of Sermon Notes, host Jay Strother is joined by special guest Travis Cottrell, worship minister and recording artist, to dive into the importance of peace, worship, and gathering as the one
Before he died, Larry Barkdull had written a substantial part of an unfinished manuscript about the extraordinary power of faith, particularly as a power that causes things to happen. This is faith on a higher level than we usually practice and understand it. With the permission of his wife, Buffie,
Colleen Montgomery, Salem,VA Warm-up Questions Did you ever have toy like was like you? If so, how was it like you? What toy would you be excited to buy a younger sibling, cousin, or neighbor for Christmas? Like Me, Like Christ Shoppers across the country are buying toys for Christmas
Cover image via Gospel Media Library. Duane Boyce and Kimberly White are father and daughter, and they have teamed up to produce the new book, The Last Safe Place: Seven Principles for Standing with the Prophets in Troubled Times. This is part two of an interview with them, conducted by
We have reached the end of the summary overview of the survival of the idea whose biblical justification was the subject of this work [Rahner’s dissertation, E Latere Christi —ed.]. The fact that it did not perish, and even became part of a solemn doctrinal decision of the Church, is probably