Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Wise men listen when hypocrites speak. We’re all at least slightly hypocritical , but Christ still calls us to speak of his mercies…..

“I have a question,” my student said ominously as he sat in the chair in my office. I braced internally and probably externally—my heart is worn on my whole demeanor. When he asked it, I was relieved: “How can I be a theology major and keep sinning?” You can’t go for long in Christian life without discovering what St. John Henry Newman meant when he said, “To know is one thing, to do is another; the two things are altogether distinct.”