Solving a problem like corporate capitalism requires more than brunches, but the modern brunch does indicate that no matter how crazy our jobs are, we all still crave community. Even when our environment encourages autonomy, we will create a space for breaking bread together.

In a sense, we have to shift the entire conversation surrounding sex away from sex.

Though difficult compositions of chromosomal and hormonal effects exist, being male or female is not a behavior: It is a necessary aspect of the physical matter.

Our making and fixing arise from an incredibly human impulse. Making calls us to be spirited because through it, we encounter, shape, and come to understand the way things are and work—artifacts and the things of nature.

We no longer think about issues—be they moral, political, or social—as merely abstract applications of the true and the good. We also approach them by way of an intrinsically emotional response, evoked by a series of visual impressions.

When our experiential existence, our pain, our sorrows, that which wounds us, becomes the object of our godlike gaze, we limn a reality that is utterly internal.

How do we make an impact in the mundane and seemingly non-heroic lives many of us live? The answer is the same as what makes the most extraordinary of saints: We love.

Perhaps God is the only reason any of us are in the same room. But then, as we are all wayfarers on our way to Him, we probably have a lot more in common than first glance might suggest.