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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo

When I was a pastoral newbie in the 1970s, the cathartic approach to anger was all the rage. The let-it-all-out method of venting anger was in vogue and counselors even created “rage rooms” so clients could blow off steam. Recent research has called this...

Augustine of Hippo

George MacDonald wrote a prayer for every day of the year in Diary of an Old Soul in 1880. His entry for July 16th begins: “The house is not for me—it is for him. His royal thoughts require many a stair, Many a tower, many an outlook fair Of which I have no thought.”...