This week we celebrated our tenth anniversary. Ten years ago I stood at the front of a church and cried my eyes out at the …

This is the second post on understanding the Old Testament. You can read the first post here. In a previous post I discussed Marcion, the …

I know few better ways to understand myself than being a father. Because kids are, after all, just little humans with all of the wonderful …

In the very earliest days of the New Testament and hardly before the ink was dry, the church already faced a pernicious error. Marcion of …

It’s entirely possible to write blog articles mechanically or artificially. This one is quite personal. My wife’s due date for our fourth child is today. …

Whatever else we would say about Luke’s story of the angels and the shepherds, it’s definitely memorable. But less clear is the point. Why did …

One day, out of nowhere, well-dressed men wearing expensive suits and dark sunglasses get out of Mercedes limos in a massive motorcade. They walk up …

There’s a very striking story about a man who never learned to read but who had a well-worn Bible. Someone asked him why the pages …

Each year at thanksgiving I feel a certain mental tension. If I go through the exercise of listing the things for which I’m thankful, I …

Four years ago today my family arrived at our new home in the Philippines. Everything seemed strange, opaque; a new, inscrutable reality in which everything …