Palm Sunday and Unmet Expectations
Woody Allen famously said that 80 percent of life is just showing up. He was talking about the big plans that people make but
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faith
From Deep to Deep: Water in Psalm 42
I have considered Psalm 42 (“As a deer pants for water brooks…”) among my favorite psalms for some time. The highly intimate prayer speaks
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Where the Morning Lies
This poem by Emily Dickinson is about a child’s question that is really a human question, a Sunday-morning congregation’s question. It struck me
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Resisting a Spirit of Lethargy Part 2
In the second of two posts of at Christward Collective on spiritual lethargy and the letter to the Hebrews (part one can be
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21 for 1
The public martyrdom of twenty-one Egyptian Christians on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea was surely intended to serve the strategic purposes of ISIS
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Resisting a Spirit of Lethargy
There is a story about the basketball coach who meets his star player off the court after a particularly poor game. “Son, are you ignorant or
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Why Christmas Is for Losers
Most people know that the religious roots of Christmas can be found in the great redemptive event of Jesus Christ’s birth or incarnation,
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Scientific Romanticism in Interstellar
I have a piece at the Gospel Coalition this morning that is part review and part analysis of the film Interstellar. In short the
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Without God Would There Be a Theory of Gravity
An interesting piece by Noah Berlatsky entitled “Would Science Exist Without Religion” at the Pacific Standard on the history of science and how skepticism
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God is Not Fate
Dear Reader, I would just like to mention a few things about God that might help when life drives you to question his
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