Don’t get in the habit (or, if you already do it, get out of the habit) of saying, “I could never talk about these things the way my pastor does.”

The opponents of Father Brown thought that debunking the fake resurrection of Father Brown would discredit the good news of Christ's resurrection. The truth, however, is the other way around.

One way or another, Rod always found a way to bring whatever story he was telling back to the gospel and God's grace in Christ.

Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ, making the truth of the Gospels profoundly human and powerfully meaningful.

If we believe that ours is truly the greatest story ever told, then we must share that story in creative ways and allow it to change the desires of its hearers.

In the sacrament, we receive an earnest of that future promise here and now in the body and blood of Jesus given and shed for us.

In honor of this anniversary celebration, here are five fun facts about The Lord of the Rings that I hope you will enjoy.

Every day, in everything we do and experience, we are busy hearing, seeing, and telling stories.

We tell the little story of the Gospel because our great stories ultimately reflect Christ.

Much like Jacob wrestling with God in the desert, we find our intellectual hips continuously put out of joint as we engage the culture around us.

Mordor’s bleak existence and the successful salvific mission of Frodo and Samwise is what makes Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings such a psychologically enjoyable epic.

Before long I was deeply involved in the trilogy (the reader is invariably "drawn into" the story in a unique way, and for a good reason as we shall see).