Contrary to nature’s rule of survival of the fittest, we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
Christ-followers need not live in fear, even when it seems that society may be turning against us. We rest in full confidence that God, in control of human history, will have the final word: The kingd...
C. S. Lewis introduced the phrase pain, the megaphone of God. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains, he said; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world...
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.
Be careful, warned Nietzsche, lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon. I
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...
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...
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.
According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day....
A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.
The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts. In
See the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with po...
And said, almost without thinking, Well, of course, Philip, God was already present in the prison. I just had to make him visible. I have often thought of that line from Joanna, which would make a fin...
Will Christians turn once again toward an approach that imposes its will on the rest of society? By doing so we would betray our founder, who resisted a temptation to authority over all the kingdoms o...
Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to the problem of pain for Christians. The Teacher’s answer is clear:...