Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom.
Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.
Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving—God’s self-giving and human self-giving—and not about self-imposing.
C. S. Lewis shocked many people in his day when he came out in favor of allowing divorce, on the grounds that we Christians have no right to impose our morality on society at large. Although he would...
But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.
As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
As Paul Tournier said, Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20
All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as the sum of the world’s suffering, an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wo...
Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Se...
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
Grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.
Culture? As Lesslie Newbigin poses the question, Can one who goes the way of the Cross sit in the seat of Pilate when it falls vacant?
We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.
Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response. Although we cannot grasp the master plan of the universe, which allows for so much evil and pain...
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
To put the issue bluntly, are the Beatitudes true? If so, why doesn't the church encourage poverty and mourning and meekness and persecution instead of striving against them? What is the real meaning...
To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, ‘I am human and you are God.
The phrase the body of Christ, expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The