To follow Christ is not contrary  to the way of grace — it is the way of grace.  To follow Christ is to experience salvation. 

It is often thought that repentance must precede forgiveness, and some think it strange that it should ever be thought the other way around,...

St. John the Revelator calls our Lord Jesus Christ, “the Lamb Slain from the Foundation of the World” (Revelation 13:8). St. John the Baptis...

The Cross of Christ is the most powerful reality in the world. All of Creation flows from it and is drawn again to it, held together in unit...

“The only thing that matters,” says St. Paul, “is faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6). This is faith  expressing itself through lov...

What is faith? What is salvation? These have often become religious buzzwords, by overuse flattened out into abstraction, holy words sliding...

How we view sin affects how we understand salvation. When sin is framed as a legal infraction, the violation of a code, salvation becomes a ...

The Incarnation is not just God entering into our world and drawing near, but God uniting with humanity in Christ. Because the Word became f...