The Quest for the Creed is the new edition of my book Adventures in Orthodoxy. The book contains twenty short chapters on the Apostles' Creed written in a creative "Chestertonian" style. Here is a sample chapter on the phrase, "He will come again to judge the living and the dead…" If there is such a thing as truth [...]
…was crucified, died and was buried … When my nephew was getting ready for college he told me he was expected to write a paper in his first week entitled, “How do I know I exist?” After discussing the matter for some time he concluded that the best thing to do was to punch his professor [...]
How to Be One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Part Four - How to Be Apostolic How can an ordinary Catholic be “Apostolic”? Isn’t the bishop is the one who is apostolic because he is a successor to the apostles? The faith is apostolic because it is handed down from the Apostles, but how can the person in [...]
Being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Part Three - How to Be Catholic With planes, trains and automobiles to take us everywhere in the world as fast as we can, and with modern communications that make everyone available to everyone else at any time, you would guess that more and more people would have a global [...]
Being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Part Two - How to Be Holy When we recite the creed each Sunday and say, “I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church” most of us don’t imagine that it has much to do with our everyday lives. Stop! Every aspect of our faith has a practical application. [...]
Being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Part One - How to Be One Every Sunday in the creed we affirm that we believe in “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.” What does this mean in real life? Too often we treat the creed like one of those terms of agreement you have to click on before [...]