An Analogy An analogy that I commonly appeal to with regard to the Christian life is the notion of sight-seeing…
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Two Kinds of Mercy There are two forms of mercy: what we might call “active” and “passive”. Active mercy involves…
Fullness and Privation Nobody who is full will be hungry, nor will anyone who has had enough to drink be…
Sometimes I think my role in life is to be a kind of walking dictionary. Having poetic pretensions, both in…
The Last Guy Back in the ’60s, Arlo Guthrie did a song called “The Pause of Mr. Claus.” In the…
Introduction to the Beatitudes
The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) is a high point in the teaching of Jesus. While the primary reason…
When I was young, I believed in God (in a kind of generic sense) but none of my prayers got…
(Here’s an old article I wrote that just happens to be timely, given that I just attended and spoke at…
NOTE This material is heavily based on ideas I learned from Dr. Gary Tuck in his hermeneutics class at Western…