Resources from 2017

The problem here is that hell, rather than God, has become the object of fear.

The question of authority is a hard and really uncomfortable one for a lot of people because we live in an anti-authority age in which we’re skeptical of authority. We’re in a post-truth era. We don’t even know who to trust, what to trust. So, within these institutions that used to be trustworthy (religion, politics, leaders), we don’t know who to trust anymore.

As Christians in service to God, we are called to a ministry, not a business, and to a vocation, not a paycheck.

Having now served for eighteen years in pastoral ministry, I still resist the professor’s advice that pastors should seek their primary community and friendships outside of their own church communities.

The catechism’s two questions introducing the Lord’s Prayer can help breathe life into our sometimes-arid prayer habits.

Recently I observed adult men and women hunched over a baby's bassinet trying to get a smile out of an infant by making strange noises […]

I’m convinced many, if not all, of us suffer because our understanding of Jesus’ love falls short. 

“Tell me,” Pippin said, “is there any hope?” Gandalf put his hand on Pippin’s head. “There never was much hope,” he answered. “Just a fool’s hope . . .”

The position of classical atheism, and especially as argued by Dawkins, is that science has disproved God.

The Bible gives the answer when it tells us that God is love. It does not say that God is loving, but that God is love.