My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
