In her superb novel, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston blends the biblical story, folklore, and the legacy of southern slavery.
Three brief extracts from my reading: prevalence of guns; how to read; our experience of faith in a pluralistic world.
Being politicized seduces the followers of Jesus away from the primacy of Scripture and the Christ-like ethic of loving those made in God’s image.
Sometimes our true selves are best revealed when there are no onlookers. No obvious onlookers, anyway.
Social media will not go away, so we need to revisit the question of how to be faithful in our use of it.
Most books on moral philosophy are dense and dry, requiring us to slog through turgid prose and convoluted logic. Except this one.
Clarity & simplicity as well as ambiguity & mystery is essential to the nature of wisdom. Most of us are comfortable with one or the other, but we need to live contentedly in both.
Tim Keller lists six things necessary if the followers of Jesus are to make the gospel attractive and plausible in our increasingly post-Christian world.
Writing about life is similar to gymnastics, it is much harder than it looks, and requires practice.
Psychologists call it languishing; most people call it the Blahs. There are ways to move from languishing towards flourishing, and to help others move, too.