For my last-ever editor’s note, I’d like to tell a story about why The Ichthus’s mission is important:
My sleep last night was not its usual dreamless gray, an...
A highly contentious health care reform bill was just passed by the US House of Representatives that many people, Christians and non-Christians alike, opposed. ...
In my last post, I looked at the positive ways Dante used the figure of Virgil, a pagan poet, in his Divine Comedy. Dante respected Virgil, and he recognized an...
There was something so allegorical about the little trip down the creek into the lake in Puerto Rico, but in fact it did happen and it was completely physical, ...
With midterms and papers galore this week, it is easy to lose sight of the most important things in life: our Father in heaven and His son's sacrifice for us. I...
Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) deserves to be near the top of any serious list of gifted contemporary theologians. After serving for decades as a missionary in I...
This is an idea for a brief sermon I hope to deliver to an actual audience someday - hopefully at Harvard.
Two years ago, most of our campus was swept aw...
The first great Christian poet—perhaps the only Christian poet famous enough invariably to be taught in high school English classes—is undoubtedly Dante. His Di...
After my treatise on reason, there are still some lingering questions: if reason is all that it's cracked up to be, why do so many people disagree? Why do peopl...
Jesus’ insistence that “the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45, Matthew 20:28) is a peren...
