Grantian Florilegium

The holiday season--what we generically just call Christmastime--is actually a long sequence of holy days, festal revelries, and liturgical ...

Today marks the first Sunday of Advent. It the beginning of a rich season of anticipation and preparation. For centuries Christians have u...

When was Jesus born in Bethlehem? The Bible describes with great certainty the fact of Christ’s birth as well as the place. But not the exac...

Serving as the pastor of the church in Rome just after Peter, Linus, and Cletus at the end of the first century, Clement (c. 100) was one of...

Blaise Pascal was a genuine a Renaissance man. He was a prominent mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher. He made important con...

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. It sounds rather as if that were but a homely old adage, yet as is often the cas...

"All the evils in our now extensive catalogue flow from a falsified picture of the world which, for our immediate concern, results in a...

One of my students asked what steps I go though when I am preparing a lecture or a talk or a sermon or a speech. Obviously, the first thing...