Jenista Kuykendall reminds us that we too have “Jonah hearts.” We are often wayward, hateful, angry, and try to put limits on God’s extravagant love. Even so, God shows his extravagant love: for Jonah, for the people of Ninevah, for the people of the world. This is the character of our God, abundant in love, patient beyond measure, and overflowing in compassion.
Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
INTRODUCTION St. John Chrysostom (chrysostomos - the 'Golden-mouthed' in Greek), Archbishop of Constantinople from 397-404, was one of the great giants of the high patristic era of the 4th-6th centuries. A champion of Nicene orthodoxy, he is accorded the title Doctor...
True and False Evils
Anne Snyder
Vagueness and moral passion are rarely productive colleagues. The truth of things demands more care and slowly earned trust, fewer scapegoats, less totalism of absolutes. Today on Breaking Ground, Phil Christman seeks to pry apart this partnership that is making so...
O Virtue, Where Art Thou?
Anne Snyder
In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. —Abraham Joshua Heschel I confess I’ve never reacted all that well to the recruitment posters created to enlist soldiers in the First and Second World Wars: Lord Kitchener, Uncle Sam, John Bull. Chalk it up...
The Measure of a Man
Rev. Timothy Moses Chambers
In this sermon, Rev. Chambers proclaims that one should not be measured based on their wealth, physical stature, or bank account. Rather, one should be measured based on the depth of their knowledge, their interest, and the height of their ideal.
A Confession About Separation
Dirk Philips
From “A Confession About Separation Briefly Summarized, In How Far We Shall Shun or Avoid the Apostate" Whether one may also show mercy to the apostate in the time of need? Here we answer first that we do not desire to withhold or hold back mercy and welfare from...
What Do You Want to Make Today?
Mako Fujimura
Biola University commencement address from artist Mako Fujimura on May 26, 2012.
Relentless Mercy
Bishop Robert Barron
INTRODUCTION The liturgical celebration of Easter continues as we celebrate Christ’s victory over sin and death on this Divine Mercy Sunday. In this sermon, Bishop Barron reflects on the active and relentless nature of God’s mercy. How have we responded to God’s mercy...
What is Freedom For?
Susannah Black
Dear friends, What is freedom for? This Holy Week, Joshua Heavin brings us a reflection on the uses and nature of freedom, as refracted through the story of this past winter’s Texas ice storm. It is a timely and moving meditation on what we are to do with the freedom...
Sermon on the Passion
Mgr. Ronald Knox
In this homily, we are drawn into some vivid closing scenes of Christ’s earthly life, “The Trial.” We are invited to ponder His silence, and then the significance of his few choice words during, both of which point to who He claims to be. Knox proceeds to canvass before roundly rejecting currents of Biblical criticism, which sought to gainsay Christ’s divinity.