Family Discipleship in the New Year

 Here is a good and helpful video:

Carl Trueman: We Lost the Sacredness of Things

 This is a really fascinating, at times provocative discussion.  I think he is definitely onto some things here...

Identity and Feelings

 Where does identity come from?  Does how we feel determine who we are?

These are important questions that have a bearing on much of the new gender ideology/LGBTQIANP+ activism that has challenged traditional norms and assumptions and which Mr. Brian Holdsworth takes up in this video.  

Non-religious Thinkers rediscover the Bible's Wisdom

 I've been watching with interest some major "non-religious" thinkers in the last few years rediscovering the importance of Christianity to the vitality of Western Civilization (and the freedoms it brings); some of these same thinkers are also rediscovering that the Bible is not just a poorly-written science book, but a source of amazing (even inspired) wisdom that really does work.  

May God use this movement to bring many souls back into the fellowship of his Church.
Here is the Roman Catholic Bishop and apologist Bishop Robert Barron commenting on the same movement: 

Great Video on Eucharistic Theology

 Mr. Jonah Saller's "Mere Catholicity" YouTube channel is worth checking out.  He is a very thoughtful Anglican layman who is well-read.  In this video he lays out an approach to the Real Presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper that both takes on board the Lutheran (and Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) concern that the Spirit actually does do something objectively to the elements themselves, to "make them be for us the body and blood of Christ".  Yet he also wants to take on board the concern of the Protestant Reformers that we can only receive Christ's presence in the Supper if we have faith.  "Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ." 

I broadly agree that an understanding that is both Biblical and informed by universal tradition should include both of these concerns.