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...
Quite often, Christianity presents us with many questions as well as answers. Some of these questions arise from our actions in the past and their result on th...
In my atheist days, when I was dating a Christian, I found the idea of "fleeing from temptation" rather silly. "Won't you only prove that you're strong if you f...
Paul's warning in 1 Corinthians 6:18 often strikes me as a mystifying exaltation of sexual sin above other sorts of moral failures . Why should deviance from G...
Both abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education programs have failed to seriously change the sexual behavior of adolescents. There is an effective alternat...
We often hear much discussion about Jesus’ ministry, his death, and his resurrection, but for some reason we tend to completely ignore the historical component ...
To start, we'd like to apologize for taking a while to get to the third installment of this series. As you can imagine, the last weeks of the semester are very ...
Next week I plan to begin a series of posts on the thorny process of making ethical decisions in the gray areas as a Christian. For now, here's an oldie but a ...
Last week I promised a response to C. Marshall's excellent question, but I'm afraid that I could not come up with a fully satisfying answer within such a short ...
One of my favorite quotes from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis:
"We begin to notice, besides our particular sinful acts, our sinfulness; begin to be alarmed no...
