Andy Cornett

“There is naught you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it. But you do not stand alone... believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.” #LOTR

Reading the news of the day can tempt us to despair, and despair’s insidious effect is to rob us of the ability to care by numbing us to the grief of our neighbors and to the horror of real-time tragedies that play out in our own backyards and across the planet. And so we pray:

Hard to believe but I got to hold in my hands an actual physical copy of The Augustinian Pastor. This book is the fruit of so many kindnesses from God. So excited to share it and for others to learn some of what I have gleaned from Augustine of Hippo.

Did not know this! I'll now be deleting a bunch of janky pdfs of Augustine & Ambrose & co, since there's open access to respectable & well-typeset critical editions.

What the middle column (especially when you make the power of the resurrection explicit and draw out its effectiveness) shows is union. Union with Christ is the foundation; benefits like forgiveness & eternal life come from that.

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My top 10 religious novels of the 20th century (one to an author): 1 Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 2 Undset, Kristen Lavransdatter 3 Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis? 4 Mauriac, Vipers' Tangle 5 Lewis, Till We Have Faces 6 Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest 7 Bacchelli, The Gaze of Jesus 8 Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward 9 Boell, The Clown 10 Waugh, Brideshead Revisited 11 Greene, The Power and the Glory 12 Robinson, Gilead 13 Lagerkvist, Barabbas 14 Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday 15 Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom 16 Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop 17 O'Brien, Eclipse of the Sun 18 Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor 19 Percy, Lancelot 20 -- I don't know - or I haven't read -- suggestions? Has to be a different author.

Women have flooded the faith and work movement in the past 20 years. Is it any coincidence that our conversations around theology of work have become more nuanced, empathic, multilayered, emotionally intelligent, and spiritually rich?? Maybe leaving them out was a mistake.

@brannonmc That’s a sharp group!

Have loved meeting with this Nautilus group each week over the past 8 months. (A few missing here) One more retreat in Princeton this coming weekend.

Blessed is the one who… “his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law will he mediate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season.” Ps. 1:2-3 #psalms

@collinhansen @nytimes Almost done reading the trilogy!

Two episodes in so far. nytimes.com/2025/03/23/art… via @NYTimes

@Bryanzfitz That’s well said. Thank you.

The same King who endured the sufferings and entered into the glory of Psalm 22 sings the quiet assurance of Psalm 23. We need therefore to remember that Psalm 23 will have been a comfort for Jesus Christ in his earthly trials;

Marilynne Robinson: “Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.”

The Trump Administration is chilling the speech of *all* student visa holders and green-card holders regardless of their stance on any particular issue—and this clearly and obviously undermines America's free speech culture. More on all this from me soon.

Hey. My favorite book that I wrote with this title is being released in paperback format. July 8th! Pretty, pretty, cool. Share the good news and complete your collection! ivpress.com/you-are-not-yo…

@dustinwmesser Yes!!

The book of Jonah is like an arrow: the point gets narrower and narrower until you reach the tip in the last verse, which pierces you with God’s redemptive-love for all of humanity (even the Ninevites) and all of creation (even the cattle).

“As for me, I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth, and praise him among the multitude, For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save their souls from the unrighteous judges.” Ps. 109.29-30 #psalms

I'm pleased to be in the WSJ this morning on my girl Flannery. 🦚🦚🦚

Psalms 105-106 are a great reminder that the chief actor in the history of God’s people is … God himself.

“Remember me, O Lord, according to the favor that you show to your people; O visit me with your salvation, That I may see the felicity of your chosen, and rejoice in the gladness of your people, and give thanks with your inheritance.” Ps. 106.3-4 #psalms

@brannonmc I feel that - with the move this fall and new rhythms this winter, I was there, too. Started getting back in February.

Last fall I was in the best shape of my life. Then the holidays happened, the cold weather…and I didn’t keep up the same pace as I had. But I’m ready to get back to it.