The late afternoon August sun shone mercilessly in my face as I made my way across the parking lot of the call center where I had been working as a janitor. Generally,…
You’ve probably heard dozens of times about the need to have an “attitude of gratitude.” I have even talked about that on this blog. But I have come to believe that telling…
Self-esteem, self-compassion, self-love, self-care. These are all hot topics in modern culture. As Christians it is sometimes easy to dismiss all these concepts as stemming from our systemic “focus on self” instead…
From ‘From Calvin a Nominalist? (Part 3)‘ “Within Calvin’s theological metaphysics, God’s sovereignty becomes acutely fragile, threatened by anything that might undermine the creational and soteriological monergism on which it precariously hinged.…
In C.S. Lewis’s book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there is a fascinating dialogue that happens after the company from Narnia voyage to an island at the beginning of the end of…
This post has been removed after being incorporated into my book Gratitude in Life’s Trenches
Readers occasionally approach me with requests for links to the articles I wrote for the Chuck Colson Center. From 2011 to 2014, I maintained columns at the Center, usually supplying three articles…
On July 21, 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was in the sick bay of the Tegel prison listening to the Nazi radio. The Lutheran minister had been sent to prison the year before…
Throughout his book Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives, Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica frequently returns to the theme that when we think negatively about another person, we actually injure them spiritually. Similarly, we…
From ‘How Peace of Mind is a Skill That Can Be Developed With Practice‘: We tend to think that a positive outlook results from external circumstances and forces that are outside of…
Few virtues are as misunderstood today as the virtue of courage. Courage is the act of choosing to press ahead in full knowledge that there may be danger ahead. It is this…
Last week I decided to apply for a cleaning job someone told me about. Given that my work as a writer has recently slowed down, I was eager at the prospect of…
