Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of ice skates, knowing that he may fall, is a very different matter from knocking him d...
Indeed,wrote C. S. Lewis142, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too s...
If God’s kingdom had a No Oddballs Allowed sign posted, none of us could get in.
Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into
G. K. Chesterton once wrote, All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.
Frederick Buechner writes, Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be...
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.
The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. —Mahatma Gandhi
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self. You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the...
Lest I sound like a cranky moralist, I should say that to me the real question is not why modern secularists oppose traditional morality; it is on what basis they defend any morality.
I’m convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved.
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
I get mailings from Amnesty International, and as I look at their photos of men and women who have been beaten and cattle-prodded and jabbed and spit on and electrocuted, I ask myself, What kind of hu...
From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a dr...