A student of faith – Page 9 – Heather Choate Davis

In twenty words, the point of religion

“Religion is the means by which we come to understand how to be a finite being in an infinite world.” –Source unknown

Elijah & the SAT

Available on Amazon, Feb. 1, 2014, Stewart Press.

Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 15

Vocation Vocation, from the Latin vocatio, can mean several things: “the proclamation of the gospel, through which human beings are called to be children of God,” the call to the divine office of teaching and preaching, and the work each one of us is called to do in our daily lives. Luther emphasizes this thirdContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 15”

Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 14

….Society is breaking at both the local and national level, precipitated, to a large extent, by the dramatic rise in single, white mothers. Correlating three national longitudinal studies, Murray reveals this statistic about children whose mothers turned forty between 1997 and 2004: In Belmont, 90% still lived with both biological parents; in Fishtown, it wasContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 14”