Good and Evil
“An evil person is not someone who is nothing but evil, someone with no redeeming features or virtues whatsoever. An evil person is not a...
Crisis
“What is the peace of the world? Perhaps we would call it security or safety; the sense that physical walls and human strength,...
Spiritual Blindness and Deafness
“He [Gadarene Demoniac – Luke 16:19-31] is an icon of our brokenness and represents us all in many ways. He did not ask Christ to deliver...
Embrace/Embracing
“It is easy to fall into despair when the deepest desires of our hearts go unfulfilled. When that happens, we suffer but also have an...
Calling from Christ
“As we look to the scriptures, with the crucified and exalted Christ as our starting point, we can, only now, recognize that the world...
Condemnation
“If we look inside ourselves and try to see our tendencies, we will easily notice that we already have a developed habit of condemning...
Ambition
“Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people—which is what I think it does...
Divisions
“For the inability of human personhood to be ekstatic towards what is outside creation and thus to unite nature in personhood leads to...
Busyness
“The waves of change in our society threaten to make our sea legs wobble as we are buffeted from all sides with moral chaos, antisocial...
Compassion
“It is of note to me that there is a great darkness associated with God in some presentations of the Christian faith, enough to drive...