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July 2018

July 09, 2018
St. Basil was a man who knew how to ask for a favor. In this...
July 08, 2018
If you tell other people to behave themselves, says Lactantius, what will they think when...
July 06, 2018
You can be a martyr even without the bloodshed, says Commodianus, a North African bishop...
July 05, 2018
Insults, thefts, even torture—none of these things do any real harm to the person who...
July 04, 2018
St. John Cassian tells how an earnest monk asked a hard question of the wise...
July 03, 2018
When the city of Antioch was in danger of total annihilation, St. John Chrys­ostom dared...
July 02, 2018
Whatever happens to sinners in hell, says St. John Chrysostom, their worst punishment is not...

June 2018

June 30, 2018
In this episode of Off the Shelf Karlo Broussard and I discuss some of the...
June 30, 2018
St. John Chrysostom tells us that the person most to be pitied is the sinner...
June 30, 2018
Why are the wicked often prosperous and happy, while the righteous struggle? It’s because they’re...
June 29, 2018
In a vision, the Shepherd tells Hermas that you can’t tell the righteous from the...
June 28, 2018
Do you think that anything escapes God’s notice? asks St. Ambrose. Even when we shut...
June 27, 2018
St. Ambrose summarizes the opinions of classical philosophy on duty. Then he explains why a...
June 26, 2018
In this transcript of the trial of St. Justin Martyr and his companions, Justin argues...
June 25, 2018
The last judgment may be coming very soon, says St. John Chrysostom. But whether it...
June 24, 2018
Does the resurrection of the dead seem strangely unlikely? Well, of course, says Aphrahat—God’s miracles...
June 23, 2018
There’s a crisis in youth ministry today and it not something that has happened overnight....
June 23, 2018
If heaven is so great, why don’t you just kill yourself now? St. Justin Martyr...
June 22, 2018
The historian Eusebius tells the story of a young girl, a holy virgin in Tyre,...
June 21, 2018
God didn’t just tell us that the resurrection would happen, says Aphrahat. He has proved...
June 20, 2018
The historian Eusebius records the last words of Agapius, a martyr who had been brought...
June 19, 2018
Why is it important that Christ’s body was laid in a new tomb, one that...
June 18, 2018
Without being taught, says St. Hilary of Poitiers, we know that we are im­mortal. Nature...
June 17, 2018
Matt Nelson tackles the topic of spiritual indifference in his latest book Just Whatever: How to...
June 17, 2018
I would dare say that each of us would admit that our prayer life has...
June 17, 2018
The soul is immortal, say St. Augustine, but in a sense it dies when God...
June 16, 2018
Asterius of Amasea reminds us that our lives really belong only to God. The things...
June 15, 2018
We think of ourselves as owners of all we possess, says Asterius of Amasea, but...
June 14, 2018
If we remember that we must die and move on, says Aphrahat, we will live...
June 13, 2018
When you pile up earthly wealth and plunder your neighbors, says Aphrahat, you are forgetting...
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