Tag: Understanding

Gifts of the Spirit: Understanding

“Call to me, and I will answer you; I will tell you great things beyond the reach of your knowledge.” Jer. 33:3. This fourth essay on the gifts of the Holy Spirit will explore Understanding. Understanding and Counsel (written about in Essay 5) are...

The Gift of Appreciation

I recently wrote about the consequences of the Covid19 crisis—both the self-sacrificing good works it prompted and, in sharp contrast, the profiting from other people’s vulnerability and the violations of people’s rights. This essay focuses on a...