Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf teaches at Yale Divinity School, where he is founder and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He is the author of Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (Yale University Press).
When we give something up, we realize that its goodness doesn't depend on our ownership of it.
From the wise men to the wedding at Cana, joy comes from recognizing and affirming the good.
"Look at the birds of the air," said Jesus. Our lives are more akin to the frantic scurrying of rats and the disciplined marching of ants.
If the world is a gift, then all the things to which you relate—and many to which you don't—are also God's relation to you.
In a culture that finds repentance unintelligible, impractical, or unnecessary, we are called to witness to its intelligibility, beauty, and importance.
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