“Conventional Christianity is the never-living faith of those who never lived it in the first place.”

The lives of the saints are the only defense Christ has chosen to make in this age.

I recently attended a series of lectures on a Theology of the Heart by my friend Chris E.W. Green, during which, as an aside, he quipped:

“Christians in America have been drawn not to the saints but to activists and practitioners, to people who got stuff done rather than th…