It’s been fascinating, enlightening and at the same time, discouraging to read various responses to my essay on racism and justice, “No More of…
Finding hope in a pandemic
Pluralistic World / Spirituality
The coronavirus is a terrible scourge, leaving a devastating trail of illness, death, strained relationships, loneliness, economic hardship and business loss in wide swathes…
By the Rivers of Water (Erskine Clarke, 2013)
Needing the gospel By the Rivers of Water is far and away the best missionary biography I have ever read. In fact, it is…
How to Be a Better Lover: Attention in a Distracted World
When it comes to information, humanity has been playing a vast game of Tetris for thousands of years. 1 As any child of the…
The Millennial Existential Experience
Maturity and Flourishing / Pluralistic World
He stood out in a room of forty balding pastors. Most were old and graying with the settled paunch of a largely inactive lifestyle.…
Once Upon a River (Diane Setterfield, 2018)
Art / Books / Discernment
Seeing into other worlds -- in a novel Friends recommended Once Upon a River to us over dinner, saying it was one of their…
The Pioneers (David McCullough, 2019)
A problem in story telling David McCullough knows how to tell a good story, and as a historian has published a series of well…
Science & The Good (James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky, 2018)
A scientific morality To be plausible a worldview needs to be able to account for morality. It’s not a surprise then, that in the…
Discerning Cultural Liturgies
Culture / Discernment / Pluralistic World
In Desiring the Kingdom, philosopher James K. A. Smith says that to be culturally discerning we need to view and respond Christianly to our…
Discernment Exercise: Cultural Lies
Culture / Discernment / Exercises
Lies We’re Being Told In the April 15, 2019 issue of The New York Times, columnist David Brooks published a thoughtful opinion piece titled,…