I wish I had a quick, easy way to deal with fear. I wish that whenever I felt that inability to take a deep breath, that murky roiling of the stomach, that tigh...
If you’ve read my blog more than two or three times, you already know how delighted I am by religious literature, especially religious literature that I haven’t...
This is my third reflection on my debates with my atheist uncle over Christianity. One of this favorite things to say was something like "Wouldn't a just/loving...
Yesterday, some good friends of mine lost their grandfather. Although we often fear death as mighty and dreadful, it cannot truly kill us. As John Donne reminds...
At first Harold Kushner could not find a publisher. Initially, the publishing establishment in New York did not think there would be a market for When Bad Thin...
Well, if you just look at this girl, you would quite easily come to the conclusion that she is liberal. I mean, come on. I wear flowers in my hair. I steal unna...
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...
I have been laboring to demonstrate in this series that Jesus specializes in turning all expectations about his own person and mission wildly upside down. Jesu...
“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is th...
I recently received an email from a friend with a simple question: Where was God in Haiti?
I imagine this question (hardly a new one) has been on many mi...
