Glog (contraction of G-Blog)

Among the historically minded, the title "defender of the faith" can hardly be separated from the irony of Henry VIII. For a long time this sort of "defender" was supposed to be a person able to engage skillfully in the art of apologetics : laying out the reasons to believe what the Catholic Church believes and teaches, more often than not against Protestants. In the 21st century, few things could be less interesting than equipping oneself to duke it out with Evangelicals: that’s not where the action’s at. At the same time few things are more urgent than giving a cynical, self-destructing world the lifeline of hope that’s faith in Christ. Are we in a bind or what? Giving reasons to believe has to take a new tack.  There is a certain way, however, that Catholics have viewed the world and lived in it that has stood the test of time and proved to be the recipe for…sanity (who’d suspect that would ever be in short supply?) But we don't usually talk about worldviews,...