On November 21, 2022, Professor Jim Houston, Emeritus Board of Governors’ Professor of Spiritual Theology, celebrated his 100th birthday. Rev. Dr. Boersma offered a meditation to a group gathered to celebrate Dr. Houston.

If Christ’s intermediate coming is a hidden one, how do we discern it? This dilemma has become pressing in our modern age, since philosophers such as Hobbes, Hume, and Kant have questioned our ability to move beyond the senses. If sense perception is the only means of knowledge, contemplatio of God in Christ would seem impossible.

Prayer, however, repudiates such modern restraints.

How can we trust that, despite all we go through, God hears us when we pray, “Grant, O harvest Lord, that we / Wholesome grain and pure may be”?

There is no “heaven” and “earth” as we’ve commonly come to understand them; harps and clouds on the one hand and unimportant physical matter on the other. Earth is charged with the grandeur of God, and we can learn to see His character and His workmanship crackling through every fiber of the world we live in.

I'm going to make a plea for a retrieval of sin, a theology of personal sin that through compunction and introspection yields purification and healing.

What is the more serious legal offense: to peacefully protest vax mandates and QR passports or to pressure and coerce people into submission, grievously violating the very heart of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, withholding all public travel from the unvaxxed, and imprisoning people for so-called violent rhetoric?

Both Catholics and Protestants, therefore, end up championing the notion that the beatific vision is a uniquely Catholic notion. They are both wrong.

Christians are called to obey God first, man second. When human laws (whether civil or ecclesial) conflict with laws that God gives in nature or Scripture (natural or divine law), the latter have priority over the former. Sometimes Christians are called to civil disobedience.