Why Study Theology?
Michael Sandifer
October 17, AD2022
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In an age of rampant specialization and outsourcing, it often seems that we are urged from every quarter to sit back and trust the experts
Cultivating A Sense of Presence
Michael Sandifer
June 25, AD2022
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In the distant arcane past, in the dark expanse of ages before the ubiquity of reliable turn-by-turn navigation, people were obliged to use confoundedly confusable
The Impeccable Timing of the Rogation Days
Michael Sandifer
June 2, AD2022
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Though we walk in plastic corridors and find ourselves in ever-further-detached expressions of what we dubiously label civilization, modern people depend in the same ways
Jesus of the Pots and Pans
Michael Sandifer
April 28, AD2022
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As a body we have ascended at last from the shrouded valleys of Lent into the brilliant light of Christ’s Easter joy. For fifty glorious
The Solace of the Psalms of Ascent in Lent
Michael Sandifer
April 1, AD2022
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These glorious forty days of Holy Lent can at times seem onerous. Depending on the rigor with which we assail the world, the flesh, and
The Evangelistic Gift of Being Weird
Michael Sandifer
January 29, AD2022
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As we cavort amid an embarrassingly secularized and confused society, unmoored as it stands from the threads of a shared past or the common experience
The Birth of Christ Changes Everything
Michael Sandifer
January 7, AD2022
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For those of us who walk on this side of Christ’s coming in the flesh, it can often be hard to place ourselves in the
A Holy Advent in Anticipation of Our Divine Messiah
Michael Sandifer
December 3, AD2021
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In much of the West, the winter winds have begun to draw in and lead us, often wistfully, down nostalgic roads of a sort of
“Beauty Will Save the World”
Michael Sandifer
October 26, AD2021
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When Dostoyevsky wrote his famous line in The Idiot, amid the squalor and anxiety of an impending revolution, he could barely imagine the hell which
St. Thomas More: A Man For OUR Season
Michael Sandifer
September 27, AD2021
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St. Thomas More is one of the most important figures of the tumultuous time of the Reformation in Europe. There are few saints who could
Filling our Hearts and Homes with Love and Beauty
Michael Sandifer
August 22, AD2021
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When the gravity of last year’s isolation began to set in on people, a few curious things happened. Obviously, we all became aware of the
Be Not Afraid
Michael Sandifer
July 29, AD2021
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The West, in particular our little corner of it here in the United States, is writhing through what is either the embarrassing throes of a
You follow Paul, I follow Apollos
Michael Sandifer
June 28, AD2021
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For perhaps a multitude of reasons, it seems like society has been systematically devolving into a web of tribal allegiances. People try with varying degrees of
Cultivating Peace in the Midst of Anxiety
Michael Sandifer
June 11, AD2021
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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day (Matthew
