Opinion

• The Secret Vocabulary of the Heart In my new book Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life, I try to tell my story in a way that doesn’t let the reader know what lies at the end of the journey, hoping that they—like me—will be startled and moved and... Feb 02, 2021

  

  The Secret Vocabulary of the Heart
• What Christians Owe a President As a new administration is installed in the United States, we have a good opportunity to refresh ourselves on a Christian’s responsibility to the government. Romans 13, written by Paul to the fledgling Christian community that... Feb 01, 2021

  

  What Christians Owe a President
• Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth One of the great contributions of Christianity to human history is the very idea that all people should be treated justly. As the influence of Christianity spread across the world, God’s instructions for how Israel should... Feb 01, 2021

  

  Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth
• The Privilege and Cost of Courageous Compassion I appreciate the American impulse to protect and support the rights of minorities, in this case the transgender population. And I want to state clearly that God loves all people, whatever their sexual orientation or gender... Feb 01, 2021

  The Privilege and Cost of Courageous Compassion
• The Death of My Spiritual Father: Is This 'The Greatest Evangelistic Hour' in History? Dr. Sewell’s homegoing is a vivid reminder that we are all one day closer to eternity. Our job is to be faithful each day until the day Jesus returns to earth or we go to heaven. Jan 29, 2021

  The Death of My Spiritual Father: Is This 'The Greatest Evangelistic Hour' in History?
• Another Epidemic: Family Gaps Widen over Sex, Tech, Trump & COVID Earlier this month, in a piece for The Atlantic, Joshua Coleman described an epidemic that’s not COVID but that’s also afflicting America: family estrangement. Jan 29, 2021

  Another Epidemic: Family Gaps Widen over Sex, Tech, Trump & COVID
• The Challenger Anniversary and the Equality Act: Three Responses to a Perilous Threat I am so deeply concerned about his administration’s commitment to the so-called Equality Act and its consequences for our nation. Jan 28, 2021

  The Challenger Anniversary and the Equality Act: Three Responses to a Perilous Threat
• Muslim Women Are Rising Up, Choosing to Follow Christ Like the women at the empty tomb of Christ, Muslim women are discovering that Jesus is alive, and they aren’t keeping silent. Some are underground while others have gone public and yet are surviving the onslaught of persecution... Jan 28, 2021

  Muslim Women Are Rising Up, Choosing to Follow Christ
• My Octopus Teacher and the God-Shaped Hole in Every Human Heart It is a particular discipline to not approach God with what Jesus called "many words," and instead to "be still and know" that He is God. Jan 28, 2021

  My Octopus Teacher and the God-Shaped Hole in Every Human Heart
• I Have Election Protestors and Never Trumpers in My Pews - How Can We Move Forward Together? The political spectrum our folks represent is more pronounced than most churches I know. But my guess is most churches are likely more politically diverse than even their clergy imagine, so you can appreciate the question that... Jan 27, 2021

  I Have Election Protestors and Never Trumpers in My Pews - How Can We Move Forward Together?