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It has not happened all that often, but on occasions someone has been upset enough with a sermon I've preached to call me up and complain.

New today from the Century.

We owe our homeland patriotism, but not just any kind of patriotism—because just as we don't choose our parents, neither do we choose our country of origin.

Whenever I attend Catholic mass during Advent, as I did last weekend, I’m always struck by how it is simply assumed—how it’s a liturgical . . . no, an ontological given—that Christmas is nowhere yet in sight.

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.

New today from the Century.

Rem­brandt's meditations on Jesus' face reflect momentous changes in his faith—and in how people of his time envisioned Jesus.