Funny story: the YouTube channel Sensus Fidelium was a critical part of my reversion to the faith. As a YouTube addict who has frequented the space in search of heterodox political commentary for years, I was graced to discover the channel in 2018. This discovery ignited my interest in liturgy and my desire to start a family, […]

The title of Frank Sheed’s Theology and Sanity combines two notions we don’t often contemplate together. Religion in 2022 seems best understood as a personal preference or a lifestyle – what does sanity have to do with it? And yet Sheed’s more than 75-year-old book offers a bracing reminder of what’s really at stake in the question of faith.

Well-intentioned but directionless believers parroting popular talking points about poorly theorized concepts of “fragility” or “privilege” is an inevitable result when, for decades, American Christians have been told to simply “be kind” and win people over with vague, doughy niceness because anything more severe might offend them.