Something of My Very Own
Caution: This post contains spoilers. How far would you go to protect those closest to you, the things you hold most dear? The tiresome rhetoric of Hollywood is very often to go “as far as it...
View ArticleProgress for the Sake of…
As I was driving around LA the other day listening to NPR, two stories run back-to-back caught my attention. The first was a story about the recent Nobel-prize winners John B. Gurdon and Shinya...
View ArticleCelebrating in the Desert
One thing I learned late, growing up in my evangelical Christian community, was the rhythm of the church calendar. It always struck me as a little odd, when I was a kid, that we would interrupt our...
View ArticleDoubting 101
This week Fred Sanders posted a link to a meditation on Barth and the experience of doubt in the life of a Christian, and especially of a theologian. The article deals with two forms of Christian...
View ArticleWhen the joy of sex gets replaced by the fear of not being sexy enough.
Here’s a little meditation on marriage I wrote for the Christianity Today blog Her.meneutics.
View ArticleOn the Road with the Noonday Demon
There’s a great deal of gold to be found in the writings of early Christian monastic communities. I like to think of the Desert Fathers, who retreated to the barren places of Egypt in the third...
View ArticleWe’re Not Lost by The Show Ponies
Album Review by Janelle and Phillip Aijian “We’re not lost, we just don’t know where to go.” The lyric from the Show Ponies’ sophomore effort invokes not only the album title, but also one of its...
View ArticleThe Glory of God
If God’s glory falls in the middle of the cosmos, and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound? This was the question I used this week to begin discussions on Jonathan Edward’s The End for Which...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis: on faces and how to get them
This morning, Fred Sanders and I participated in a chapel honoring C.S. Lewis’ life and works. Here’s a little reflection on a passage from Till We Have Faces: Be careful of the story you tell...
View ArticleThe Advent of Good Will
By far my favorite story about the celebration of Christmas is the Christmas truce of 1914. On the night of December 24th, entrenched and fully engaged in deadly combat, German soldiers in Ypres began...
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