Devotion
“This is what Christ means when He says that all the Law and the Prophets are contained in these two commands–He means that the Law and...
Creation
“God creates the cosmos so that love between beings is possible. God creates the world with the intention of entering into the world in...
Human Beings (Becoming Fully Human)
“ ‘Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him,...
Symbols
“The Lord knows that we can only make sense of the world through rational engagement with it, and so we are given patterns and symbols to...
Structure
“The concept of structure has been given a bad name not only by pietism, which puts all the emphasis on what is within man or his ethical...
Suffering (Finding God Within It)
“All of the writings in the New Testament clearly presume that suffering is universal – everyone suffers. There is no teaching in the New...
Faith and Science
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for...
God's Nature/Our Nature
“It is very interesting that…it is only when God “empties himself” for the life of the world, that He actually takes on being. Before...
Stability
“Let us not be troubled when it befalls us to be plunged into darkness, especially if we are not responsible for it…this darkness...
Secularism
“The great tragedy of secularism is its reduction of all things to mere things. We are created to have right relationships with all...