Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.
J. Robertson McQuilkin...was once approached by an elderly lady facing the trials of old age. Her body was in decline, her beauty being replaced by thinning hair, wrinkles and skin discoloration. She...
In God’s presence I feel small because I am small.
I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!
I believe Christians walk a mental tightrope and are in constant danger of falling in one of two directions. On this subject, errors in thinking can have tragic results. The first error comes when we...
Evil’s greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator...
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away...
But what if I create a universe that is free, free even of me? What if I veil My Divinity so that the creatures are free to pursue their individual lives without being overwhelmed by My overpowering P...
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.
Be careful, warned Nietzsche, lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon.
As we rely on God, and trust his Spirit to mold us in his image, true hope takes shape within us, a hope that does not disappoint.We can literally become better persons because of suffering. Pain, how...
As a writer I have received my share of mixed reviews. Even so, as I read through stacks of vituperative letters, I got a strong sense for why the world does not automatically associate the word grace...
As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20
An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.
Along with Chesterton, I’ve had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted...
Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than...
After reporting on such moments, the historian Paul Johnson concludes, Attempts to perfect Christian societies in this world, whether conducted by popes or revolutionaries, have tended to degenerate i...
According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.