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…
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.…
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…
Race, Economics and Apologetics: Is There a Connection? (Luke Bobo; 2019)
Books / Community / Pluralistic World / Scripture
Embodying the gospel Margie and I heard Luke Bobo—no stranger to the pages of Critique—speak on this topic and hoped to publish his talk.…
Leadership in Turbulent Times (Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2018)
Studies in leadership Doris Kearns Goodwin is the best sort of historian: a careful scholar who teaches by telling compelling stories. In Leadership in…
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear (Matthew Kaemingk, 2018)
Books / Community / Hospitality / Pluralistic World
Welcoming Muslims Everyone knows that immigration is a divisive topic today. In America, Europe and beyond massive numbers of people are on the move…
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Stephen Hawking, 2018)
Books / Discernment / Pluralistic World
The Reason for No God My first thought upon picking up Stephen Hawking’s 2018 book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions is that it is…