Bold Messages, Fearless Messenger

Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

He wasn’t an intellectual, or a noteworthy theologian, for that matter. But some say Saint John Chrysostom, whose feast day we observe today, was one of the greatest orators our Church has ever known.

He didn’t use metaphors, didn’t try to share the Good News in ways that might be palatable to the establishment or to those in the pew. He just told it as he saw it....