now the question we must ask is…what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are...

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love…Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of...

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice” people, not...

But what might a woman say about church as she? What might a woman say about the church as body and bride? Perhaps she would speak of the way a regular body moves through the...

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

The nails did not kill Him… It was the needs that did.

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely...

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I’ll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul.

conditions”?

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the...

Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.

He bolted right through the wooden cross arm at the parking garage exit and power-slid into traffic. A torrent of car horns and skids enveloped his vehicle, but the tears in Danny’s eyes created the...

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn’t done something and placing myself in his...

I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His...

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if...

Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a...

Agora que já se ouviu tudo, aqui está a conclusão: Tema a Deus e guarde os seus mandamentos, pois isso é o essencial para o homem.Pois Deus trará a julgamento tudo o que foi feito,...

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects – and infects – every sphere of our living.

The quality common to the three experiences… is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be...

Before whom am I guilty? Myself and my gods. But before God? I would be guilty before God IF God had not disclosed himself as forgiving, taking my place, rendering a verdict of pardon upon...

Niceness’—wholesome, integrated personality—is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’; just as...

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is – a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue....

The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed:...

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor…I truly believe that...

Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel.

A clear pattern soon emerged, as demonstrated by many polls: the more prominently Christians entered the political arena, the more negatively they were viewed by the rest of society.

Sometimes God remains silent to see if we’ll remain faithful. The stillness exposed our intentions.

If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings...

Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth…and long before doctrines and denominations, the preeminence of the gospel was already ripe to harvest. Before man had...

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them,...

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

Tobacco,’ Jig said. ‘I used to raise tobacco once. But I quit. I was plowing one morning, and the Lord said, “Jig, how’d you like for your daughter to smoke?” And I said, “I wouldn’t...

Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory” (p. 127).

Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church is the embassy of the eschaton in the world. The church is the...

Nature is also God’s way of communicating with us. Jesus himself used nature to teach us about God. He used birds and flowers, the weather, precious stones…Looking at nature, we can come to understand God...

Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at the cross; displaying a divine wisdom that staggers the imagination and leads the humble heart to bow...

If you have ever belonged to such a community, however, you may have discovered that the trouble starts when darkness falls on your life, which can happen in any number of unsurprising ways: you lose...

The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one’s being. The height of the Christian life is...

Don’t complain to yourselves that you can’t go to the mission field! Thank God for bringing the mission field to you!

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic, and this even though they loathed Clinton, because the battle against religious and...

I am accountable.I am correctable.I am transformable.Presenting myself a living sacrifice to God. By the love of God.By the word of God.Completely supplied in Christ Jesus.Unto all good works.

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.’ – Bread & Wine (day 5)

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside...

It is arguable that when Humanists, “Shook off,” as people say, “the trammels of religion,” and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right… they began to lose the finer...