Loving the Church

Thomas Linacre, upon reading the four gospels for the first time: “Either this is not the Gospel, or we are not Christians.” [Source]

Your view of the church is a model, no matter how much you want to believe otherwise. Models are a useful tool for gaining insight into something very complex. In science, for example, most physical processes are too complex to describe fully, so we resort to models. You develop a model based on any number [...]