An unending exercise in blessed futility
About 3,400 years ago, a man named Moses climbed a mountain to talk to God on behalf of a very large group of refugees. God, who had saved these people from slavery through a series of awesome and terrifying acts of judgment on their oppressors, covered the mountain with dark clouds and thundered out an
Once upon a time, or so legend says, a great thinker and writer named Augustine was walking along a seashore, thinking about God. Ever since he had become a Christian while reading Paul’s letter to the Romans in a garden (an excellent choice of both reading material and location, as conversions go), Augustine thought about
