We are not saved at a distance. We are saved when we let Jesus come close. We must learn to open wide the doors to Christ.

Of all the ways we could ever respond to God, gratitude might be the most practical, personally constructive, and important movement of our hearts.

When I worked at a parish…

The year was 1205…

Along the hillside of a small Italian town, there stood an old, broken-down church with a young man inside, kneeling on its cold stone floor. The years had…