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We reckon bread and circuses is a good political routine. We are much drawn to circuses, and we imagine that we own the bakery. On our own we do not want to choose between guns and butter, so deliver us from all the guns, all the butter, all the circuses, all the bread that we... Read More →

For Paul the resurrection was no metaphor; it was the power of God. And when he spoke of Jesus as raised from the dead, he meant Jesus alive and at large in the world not as some shimmering ideal of human goodness or the achieving power of hopeful thought but as the very power of... Read More →

Like the shepherds, we remain believers. Like them, we see the child in the cradle, who does not want to be distinguished from other children, and we hear the message “as it had been told them” of this child. The night of the world is as dark to us as it was to the shepherds... Read More →

Do you ask the reason why God was born among men? If you take out of life the various benefits bestowed on us by God, you will not be able to say what means you have of recognizing the divine. For it is by the blessings we enjoy that we recognize our benefactor, seeing that we... Read More →

“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.” Because of this very thing most of all should you marvel, that being Son of the Unoriginate God and his true Son, he suffered himself to be called also Son of David, that he might make you Son of... Read More →