This is Part One of the ongoing series “Maps and Territories.”
It is very easy for us to raise our beliefs above God.
Let me take an example from my own lif...
A friend of mine asked me recently whether actually going to church was important, or if just watching a taped sermon was enough. It’s a common question, an...
It’s my first Harvard snowfall.
I wrestle a lot. With God, with myself, with my beliefs, everything. I have a tendency to question everything, to demand answ...
When praying for those around me, I am often uncertain how to pray for my friends in relationships, especially those who are not Christian. Is praying for the w...
"The kingdom of God is within you" Christ says. Christ's first priority was never to create heaven on earth in an ideal society; it was to create heaven on eart...
It is increasingly hard for me to believe in a loving God. Not because I look around at my life and see pain and suffering, but because I look at who I am and r...
I am increasingly realizing that pride is not a sin of ambition, but a sin of delusion. This is a valuable revelation to me, for pride is my greatest tempta...
The greatest obstacle I face each day is despair. Not a temporal, depressed despair, not a despair related to things in the outside world, but a despairing of m...
Doubt is not the arch-nemesis of faith, but its progenitor.
One of my favorite forms of ministry is to youth, largely because of what we learn from watchin...
