This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.

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We fail over and over again to tame the sin in our hearts, to guard the doors of our lips and to act like the children of God.
Advent is one big answer to the question of free will in matters of salvation. God is free. Our will is bound.
Advent is the season when the Church declares to a world overwhelmed by excuses, lies, and cruelty that their Savior comes.
Zechariah’s prophecy about John’s ministry also comes to us in the fullness of our time.
Often, when we talk about the Old Testament, we talk about God's promises and work for his chosen people, Israel.
God’s gifts are received, and the faithful heart offers gratias, and thanks are given in return.
What does it mean to be a child of God and to carry his image? This is a theological question, but it is a question necessary for our self-understanding
I am often haunted by my past. I am daily haunted by what I should be doing.
As every nail that Jesus hammered was a delight to his Father, so every email you send, every purchase you ring up, every table you wipe down, is a delight to the Father.
A father dies and leaves an inheritance to his two children, Jane and Grace. The family member handling the estate gives them each a letter containing the cheques for their inheritance.
When we think God is doing something for us here or there or everywhere, we are simply fixing labels and putting value on what we imagine God is doing for us.
What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with God? And what words, then, do I pray?