A close friend told me recently that he can no longer read the Bible. He isn’t as angry as Frank Schaeffer, whose Why I…
When you get old, who will you be?
Ordinary Life / Safe Place / Spirituality
What in life sustains us for the long trip to the end of our days? Sometimes a stream of despair causes me to doubt…
The Transformative Power of Story
Art / Culture / Spirituality
“Culture changes,” the Rev. Timothy Keller says, “when a society’s mind, heart, and imagination are captured by new ideas that are developed by thinkers,…
Polarization, reaction and faithfulness
Discernment / Ordinary Life / Spirituality
I like to think that my beliefs are pure, held only because they are demonstrably true, and maintained in a form untouched by the…
A few words on living the dream
Culture / Discernment / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
The headline on the cover of Self was printed in a font clearly designed to catch our attention. “Live the Dream! Strong / Sexy…
Little Ways and Secret Sins
Ordinary Life / Safe Place / Spirituality
In 1873 a twenty-three-year-old French woman died of tuberculosis. It was a common disease back then and many died from this incurable pulmonary wasting…
Idols in Our Modern World
Culture / Faith / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
To live in the modern Western world is to live where the public square is determinedly secularized. The players in the square in America,…
THE HINGE GENERATION: Millennials and the Future of the Evangelical Church
Some people and some generations stand out. Tom Brokaw celebrated those Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World…
Confidence with Humility
Many of our neighbors are dubious about truth claims, and tend to react negatively to anyone claiming that their beliefs are absolutely true and…
“A Few Like You”: Will the Church be the Church for Homosexual Christians?
Culture / Faith / Hospitality / Spirituality
In 1947, the great English poet W. H. Auden wrote a letter to his friend Ursula Niebuhr in which he confessed: “I don’t think…