Bob Hunt

Flannery O'Connor and the Power of God

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God'” (Ps 14:1). The fool says, too, that while there may be a God, there’s no reason I cannot make my own plans for my life, chart my own destiny, set my own course, without serious consideration of His plans for me. For this fool is saying basically the same thing as the fool who says there is no God, because he says there is no God of consequence.

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A Great Sadness: Unacceptable Language and the Privilege of Revenge

Teach your children well. Teach them about respect. Teach them about forgiveness. Teach them that in Christ they are not superior to others or a victim first and foremost. Rather, they possess a dignity in Christ that is beyond anything the world can give or take.

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The Bishops on Biden

No one can judge the state of Joe Biden’s soul before God. That is for God alone. But, that does not relieve the bishops and those others in the Church responsible for teaching and guiding others in the faith from making judgments on Biden’s public acts and positions in light of the clear and consistent teachings of the Church

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The Bishops on the COVID-19 Vaccines

There are currently three Covid-19 vaccines that are being made available and distributed in the United States.

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 16: Miracles, Continued

This is a very important question that was made famous by Dr. Richard Dawkins. In a visit to Lourdes in France, Dawkins made note of the great number of wheelchairs and crutches that had been purportedly left behind by the cripples who no longer needed them after having been supposedly healed by the miraculous waters of the grotto

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 15: Miracles, Continued

In the 1986 documentary about Mother Teresa, produced by Ann and Jeanette Petrie, the camera records a fascinating encounter between Mother Teresa and the authorities in Beirut, Lebanon. Mother has been informed of some orphans trapped in West Beirut, caught in the crossfire of the warring groups

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 14: Miracles, Continued

Regarding the miracles of Jesus, we have more than one written record, and those records are much more recent than anything from the Old Testament. The Gospel stories of Jesus healing the sick are too many to list here.

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 13: Miracles

Over the course of humanity’s time on Earth, men and women have experienced, either as the beneficiaries of or witnesses to, extraordinary events that couldn’t otherwise be explained by the ordinary workings of the natural world. These are miracles. Miracles are events that are extraordinary.

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 12: Desire

We experience natural, innate desires that correspond to real objects or needs. Hunger corresponds to the real object of food and the need to be nourished. Thirst corresponds to the real object of water and the need to be hydrated.

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 11: Beauty

As humans, we experience that some things are beautiful. While driving through western Montana in the summer of 2013, I was struck by the beauty of the region. Every turn of each corner on the highway revealed yet another postcard of amazing natural beauty. Rivers and streams flowed in valleys carved between forested mountains.

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 10: Morality

As a human community, we experience that there are objective moral values. These moral values are not simply the values of individuals, or the social mores of a particular era or country. Rather, we understand these values to be objective, that is, they’re true regardless of time, place or the changing fads of various generations

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 9: Truth

In his dialogue De libero arbitrio (Free Choice), completed in 395, St. Augustine of Hippo proposes a proof for the existence of God based on our experience of truth.

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 8: Consciousness

As human beings, we possess the capacity to know ourselves and our surroundings. We can understand how the world works. But, the world itself cannot understand how it works. The world lacks the consciousness to do so.

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 7: Martyrdom

In all of human experience there is perhaps nothing so sublime or profound as the witness of one who is willing to sacrifice his or her life for the sake of the other, and for the sake of the Other Who is God. “Greater love has no man,” St. Paul said, “than to give his life that another might live.”

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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 6: Sanctity

The great majority of people over the many millennia of the human community have held for the existence of a Supreme Being. Many people, as well, have encountered God by way of a variety of religious experiences, mostly personal, though some involving groups or even multitudes.

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