Obedience as a Virtuous Practice
What practices lead us to cultivate holiness?
Do we want to be like Captain Marvel or St. Thérèse of Lisieux? Like Achilles or Mason Tarwater? Is it an either-or? (Consider my 2020 “Flannery O’Connor versus the Marvel Universe” in Church Life Journal.) We need heroes and models to follow, those who embody a way of seeing and being in the world that stands apart as worthy of imitation. For Christia…
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