Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Leisure as virtue

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David Steindl-Rast has commented that leisure is not the privilege of those who have time, but rather the virtue of those who give to each i...

A textual criticism thought

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if you follow the harder readings, you will end up with an unintelligible text; if you follow the shorter readings, you will end up with no ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Gratitude is the key

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Gratitude is the key to all. We come to personal healing and to reconciliation with others to the exact extent that we are warmed and vitali...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Home!

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Real love and real friendship are home—you do not go home from them! Whenever we experience love, however powerful, from which we need to go...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Nostalgia is death

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Nostalgia is an unhealthy depression, an adolescent sentimentality which leaves us clinging to the past so as to be unable to enter the pres...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The prophet

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To pray and do social justice is to be prophetic. But that’s a lonely and hard business. Prophets are persecuted, are powerless and are reje...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

A bit of a double standard, no?

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Why is it that a Christian may not, in good conscience, ignore the teachings of Scripture and the church regarding prayer and private morali...

A bit of respect, please

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I believe we need to cultivate a healthy appreciation of the holy presence of God in our midst, especially in our assemblies. There is no fe...
Monday, September 22, 2025

A cancerous restlestness is consuming us

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So much of our unhappiness comes from comparing our lives, our friendships, our loves, our commitments, our duties, our bodies and our sexua...
Friday, September 19, 2025

The contradictory call to life

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Affluence and leisure have created a higher psychic temperature. These have focused us on interpersonal, sexual, artistic, athletic and scie...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Obscurity

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In the end all of us live in obscurity, unknown, frustrated. Our lives are always smaller than our needs and our dreams. Ultimately we all l...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Spiritual exhaustion

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We no longer see our longing as a congenital and holy restlessness put in us by God to push us toward the infinite. Instead it becomes a tame...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

True knowledge

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Man the knower pursues two related but distinct kinds of knowledge. As homo sciens , man the knower of scientia , he tends to matters of fac...

A means to an end, not the end in itself (Tozer for Tuesday)

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I must caution here that the Bible is not an end in itself. We were not given the Bible as a substitute for God until we get to heaven. Rath...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Dehumanization

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The danger of mechanized civilization, of an industrial and commercial society, is that it tends to degrade the distinctive nature of man by...
Friday, September 12, 2025

A yawning chasm

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Deterministic thinking eats away at the common reason: scientific thinking starts by scouring away superstitions and falsehoods, but then sc...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

But what do you do with all that knowledge?

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Second things suffer, as Lewis was fond of repeating, when put first. Science is a good servant but a bad master, a good method for investig...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The final post from Crucifixion

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The greater part of the discussion in these pages has focused upon the communal, corporate, and cosmic significance of the cross of Jesus Chr...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

In the weakness of the cross

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Unless God is the one who raises the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist, there cannot be serious talk of forgiveness...

It ain't enough!

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Forgiveness is not enough. Belief in redemption is not enough. Wishful thinking about the intrinsic goodness of every human being is not eno...