Falling Down and Getting Up Again

I heard once of an Italian peasant woman who happened to bump into a monk who lived in a monastery high on a hill above her village. Since she bumped ...

Calling Good Bad, Bad Good

In the mass-media age, journalism is more than the transmission of neutral information: It traffics in the kind of information and spectacle calculated ...

What Men and Women Talk About

Men and women don't necessarily want to discuss the same subjects, according to a recent poll of 1,000 adults by Bruskin Associates.

The leading discussion ...

Grave Talk: No Glib Comments

When people started fearing death in earnest, they stopped talking about it.

God Wants To Give Best

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not ...

Knowledge of Our Neediness

In our more honest moments, all of us know what needy people we are.

Seeking Balanced Christianity

Balanced biblical Christianity is a rare phenomenon. It seems to be a characteristic of our fallen minds that we find it easier to grasp half-truths than ...

Borderline Christianity

There's something comfortable about reducing Christianity to a list of do's and don'ts, whether your list comes from mindless fundamentalism ...

Churches Full of Sinners

The biblical fact is that there are no successful churches. There are, instead, communities of sinners, gathered before God week after week in towns and ...

Lost and Unaware

A recent novel by Madeleine L'Engle is titled A Severed Wasp, If you're addressing young people or some other audience with strong stomachs, the ...