As Susan Cain points out in her fascinating book, Quiet, American society went through an important cultural shift in the opening years of the…
A Cloud of Witnesses (Alister McGrath, 1990), Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy (Bradley Green, 2010), Early Christian Thinkers (Paul Foster, 2010)
Some who came before We are part of an unfolding story, and no amount of wishing otherwise will change that reality. Those who came…
The Psychopath Test (Jon Ronson, 2011)
Labeling without conscience On May 27, 2011 I happened to catch an episode (#436) of This American Life on National Public Radio called “The…
When Life Goes Dark (Richard Winter, 2012)
Meeting the blues with grace Some Christians believe that all forms of mental illness or emotional distress are really spiritual problems in disguise. It’s…
Evil Depicted in Breaking Bad and Mad Men
Art / Movies / Spirituality
What's happened to you? In one of the most stunning scenes in AMC's Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White explains to his wife why he…
The Exact Place: Excerpt The Yellow Ladyslipper (Margie Haack, 2012)
The Yellow Lady Slipper Lake Agassiz was an ancient glacial lake of the Pleistocene which covered much of present day northern Minnesota, northeastern North…
Craig Finn, Clear Heart Full Eyes (2011)
Holding steady for goodness I had never heard of Craig Finn until he was interviewed on The Colbert Report along with guitarist Tad Kubler.…
Abraham Kuyper (Richard Mouw, 2011), Portraits of a Radical Disciple (Christopher Wright, 2011)
Two 20th century leaders worth knowing St. Paul says that God cares for his church. One way he does so is by raising up…
Bad Religion (Ross Douthat, 2012)
The Slow-motion Collapse of Traditional Faith In Prague there stands a monument to an odd couple: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Tycho, the Catholic…
Poetry
My Life My life is An obstacle. Sadness is a hurdle. My life is A cloud. Angriness is thunder. My life is A field.…