Blessed Are Those Who Know How to Shout with Joy

Happy Feast of St. Augustine!

Today is the feast day for St Augustine of Hippo. He is, as Rowan Williams has said, worth engaging seriously, not only for what he shows us about God and the life that leads to God, but also because of what he shows us about being human:

He grasps, as few if any pre-modern writers did, the way in which the shaping of a sense of self is a narrative busin…