This volume features a collection of sermons, talks and addresses given in a variety of different contexts, which tackle complex theological topics in a straightforward, non-technical way that non-specialists can easily understand.;The essays have a fundamental theme in common: that the mind can love, just as the heart needs to understand, and that a proper use of intellect is a way of being truly alive. Hence, for the author, good theology is an essential practice of Christian life.;This book aims to reconcile the apparently contradictory, but - as the author sees it - actually complementary outlooks of head and heart: faith responsibly and properly lived is a matter of appropriately integrating emotion and reason.