This past week undoubtedly has been a very difficult one. I would not exaggerate to say that it has been one of the most difficult weeks of my life, and I think...
Tragedy struck Boston today. And it is very, very hard to understand why.
That is what is so terrifying. Whose heart did not cry out "Why?" when they thought o...
Whether and how Christians ought to participate in politics are delicate questions. The common belief that Christians are primarily of the Kingdom of ...
Genesis 11:1-11:8 Babel
So I'm giving up. After my article was published on Christianity Today, I've gotten dozens of emails that seem to need more urgent respo...
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the twentieth century does not reckon with. But we are “harmless,” and therefore u...
God is not incomprehensible; rather, we are uncomprehending.
When we say “God is mysterious,” we are not talking about God but about ourselves.
We must be ver...
Reasonable does not mean expecting everyone to believe -- but rather given the "reasonable" (rather than "absolute") amount of evidence for Christianity, it is...
Genesis 6:15-9:17 Noah and the Flood
Because I'm so behind in the series, I've decided to skip a couple weeks. I promise to fill in the gaps in the coming weeks...
The famous conclusion of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents was that civilization is, by necessity, coterminous with repression--that, in a certain sense,...