Mysteriology

What's the point in arguing? We're all just taking things on faith anyway.

Seriously, I'm tired of it. What's it accomplishing? The more detailed and thorough we get on our theology, the more the Church splinters. Before the year 1054, there was literally one unified Church. One doctrine, one faith. What happened? Why? Arguments about theology. The more we talk, the less we agree.

Mysteries, Season 2: Is it Lawful?

I love stories about Jesus! A couple years ago I mentioned such a story to one of my roommates, and discovered that he wasn't familiar with it. [Gasp!], I thought! You mean not every single Christian knows every single Jesus story by heart??

With that in mind, here's a Jesus story!

Why I really don't know what it is which I absolutely know that I can't possibly know.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua - “A Defense for My Life”. The title of my blog, if you were wondering, is a reference to that book by Cardinal John Henry Newman, who converted to Catholicism from Anglicanism in 1845. It's one of the more famous conversion stories, possibly since Newman started as an Anglican clergyman and ended up as a high-ranking official in the Catholic Church. When I was investigating Catholicism, someone recommended the book to me. To be honest, I was a little disappointed when I flipped through it – I'd been hoping to find in it some really compelling reasons to be Catholic, but instead what I got was mostly biographical. Pro Vita Sua – it was about his life; his spiritual journey. Nevertheless, when I started my blog, I decided to name it after his book. It was, after all, about my conversion, and it was, after all, a defense of my conversion. And it was some cool Latin words which form an obscure literary reference. Yes, I suppose I think myself very clever and witty, don't I?