In a previous post, I wrote about C.S. Lewis’s description of the Trinity as a source of love and personhood. God is love, and love works through us...
As a boy, I remember hearing the heart cry of a restless generation echoing from my eldest brother’s high-powered stereo speakers. The words of pop singer Jackie DeShannon...
I remember the first time I saw real poverty. It was the early 1970s, so I would have been 7 or 8 years old. Flipping through a copy...
Ideas have consequences. John Piper articulates this when he tells the story of Victor Frankl, who was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. Regarding...
All work has dignity because it reflects God’s image in us, and also because the material creation we are called to care for is good. The Greeks saw...
The promise of religion has much more to do with the next world than with this one. None of the great religions can be pursued seriously except upon...
What was your favorite part of school? For me, I loved the excuse to read great authors and talk about ideas. This would be shortly followed by my...
A few years ago, The Huffington Post’s blog “Wait But Why” created “Lucy,” an imagined embodiment of today’s emerging adult. Lucy is what the article calls a GYPSY,...
A popular bumper sticker in my current home state of Michigan reads something like this: “A bad day of fishing beats a good day at work,” which prompts...
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