Literary Witness: The World’s Last Rationalist
David Mills From the Sept/Oct 2009 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine One of the most persistently annoying prejudices against Christianity is that Christians are too committed to Christianity to be...
View ArticleLiterary Witness: Spiritual but Unbelieving
David Mills From the Nov/Dec 2009 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine Did you ever meet, or hear of, anyone who was converted from skepticism to a ‘liberal’ or ‘demythologized’ Christianity?” C. S. Lewis...
View ArticleLiterary Witnesses: Red-Hot Revival
David Mills From the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine At the end of the nineteenth century, Malcolm Muggeridge observed, “It would have seemed only too obvious that Christian institutions...
View ArticleLiterary Witnesses: Sin and the Church
David Mills From the May/Jun 2010 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine “I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable,” wrote Flannery O’Connor....
View ArticleLiterary Witnesses: Sailing of Sinking?
David Mills From the Jul/Aug 2010 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine Man needs a message from Outside, from Someone who knows the truth, because we don’t know enough and what we do know, we don’t know very...
View ArticleLiterary Witness: Thought-Out Thoughts
David Mills From the Sep/Oct 2010 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine The man without a settled intellectual commitment-a philosophy-is not therefore free to think about things and come to the truth his...
View ArticleLiterary Witnesses: Dumbing Down Dogma
David Mills From the Nov/Dec 2010 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine As a young student at Oxford, Evelyn Waugh listened to a Protestant minister question the Bible and speculate about who Jesus actually...
View ArticleChoosing Love and Making Life – Sex, Love, Marriage & the Culture of Death
David Mills From the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine I do not think many of those who argue so hard for abortion really like the idea of killing the unborn, though there are some,...
View ArticleCatholic Beach Reading: Books to Refresh Your Mind and Your Soul
David Mills From the Jul/Aug 2011 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine Some people like reading books with words like “deontological,” “kerygmatic,” and “synecdoche” in them the same way other people like...
View ArticleSimple Post-Christianity
The post-Christian world, Blessed John Henry Newman would have quickly pointed out, is still the world, and the ways worldliness challenges us remain as they were when Adam and Eve were expelled from...
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