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Ascension Media6 min read

A Strange Anointing: Glory in Suffering

A Strange Anointing: Glory in Suffering
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Guest Writer4 min read

Great Resources for Learning about Quantum Theory (and Its Relationship to a Trinitarian God)

Be prepared to increase your understanding of how quantum mechanics has changed our understanding of reality, and how it relates to theology.
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Rory O'Donnell6 min read

Is God Free to Create the World?

Is God free to create the world? The answer isn’t a yes or a no. Aquinas teaches there is one thing that God wills necessarily: his own divine goodness.
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Close Encounters of the Divine Kind

Though our Divine encounter is not as close as that of the first disciples, it is no less real. We experience it through our parish.
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Dr. Michael Ferguson4 min read

Curious Bedfellows: Soul and Brain

After publishing an architectural decomposition of the human brain’s functional patterns, none of us knew the astounding correlations that would emerge from Aristotle’s philosophy of the human soul.
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C. S. Lewis on Humility

C. S. Lewis captures the essence of humility in his "Screwtape Letters. For Lewis, humility is not thinking less of ourselves—but less about ourselves.
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Carolyn Leatherman4 min read

Evangelization: Reawakening the Human Desire for a Lasting Home

This desire for home is one of the human heart’s five transcendent desires, and is intimately bound up with the fourth level of happiness.
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What Deuteronomy (and a Red Pencil) Can Tell You about Your Heart

You can’t make sense of the Old Testament story without Deuteronomy. In Deuteronomy, God reveals his love and appeals to the hearts of his people.
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The Men Behind the Young Karol Wojtyla

The Men Behind the Young Karol Wojtyla
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Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D.7 min read

Quantum Mechanics and the Real Presence: What Reality Should We Believe?

Shortly after I entered the Church, and as a physicist, I struggled with Quantum mechanics and the Real Presence. I wondered what reality I should believe?
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Ancient Philosophy & the New Testament

What does philosophy have to do with the New Testament? What follows is a survey of philosophical schools that precede and even encounter the New Testament.
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An Easy Way to Do a Daily Examen

Father Mark-Mary shows you how to do a daily examen—a simple spiritual exercise that could have a great impact on your life.
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