Books You’ll Never Be Graded on Except by Reality

1. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Genesis, the Psalms. 2. The Gospel according to St. John. 3. St. Augustine, The Confessions 4. Plato, The Apology; The Crito; The Phaedo 5. Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. 6. The Epistles of St. Paul….

Life in the United States of Amnesia

So we plod along, more or less in the dark, more or less humiliated by the dreary quality of our prayer, our worship  by turns inane and trivial, our sense of the holy vitiated, distracted,…