The following is taken from the chapter on George MacDonald in my book Saints and Scoundrels. At a time when Darwinism was removing the wonder and magic from the world, reducing people…
The sacramental imagination invites us to rethink one of the hottest topics within Christian apologetics right now: the meaning of “a Christian worldview.” In 1963, Fr. Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983) addressed this topic…
My previous post, “A Visit From G..K. Chesterton“, raised the issue of what is often referred to as “the sacramental imagination.” Along with other poets and novelists associated with the sacramental imagination (one…
From Ravi Zacharias’ book Recapture the Wonder: Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need…
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…
