Comfort and Emotional Numbing

From my article ‘What Gratitude is Not‘: “When our pursuit of comfort causes us to numb ourselves to the pain and hurt happening around us, and even happening to us, what we’re…

Smartphones and Your Brain

Today marks the beginning of Screen-Free Week, when children throughout the nation are encouraged to unplug from the screen to rediscover the joys of childhood, the richness of relationships, and the adventure of…

What if Trump is Exactly What He Seems?

There has been so much speculation about Trump’s psychology, what drives him, what the correct “theory of Trump” is. On the political right this manifests itself in Trump’s rationalizers – those who…

The Relationship of God’s Kingdom to This World

During this season of Easter, as the Church celebrates the breaking forth of New Creation, I’ve had occasion to reflect on the relationship of God’s Kingdom to this world. In an interview…

The Real Meaning of ‘Christian’ Work

Is this world, and our physical experiences within it, unimportant to God? Can anything of lasting spiritual importance be accomplished in the present space-time universe, or is it simply a waiting room…

Rethinking “Political Nestorianism”

I don’t use this blog to attack other blog posts, but I feel compelled to make an exception in the case of an article written by Aristotle Papanikolaou. Dr. Papanikolaou is the…

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First Twitter, Now Bombs: the Consequences of Trump’s Impulsivity

Readers of this blog will know that I have never been a fan of President Trump. But at least I held out hope that something good might come of his presidency if…

Trump’s Brave New World

I’ve often had occasion to reflect on Neil Postman’s trenchant comparison of the dystopian visions of Orwell and Huxley, as represented in their respective books 1984 and Brave New World. In 1985, the year after…

Bonhoeffer on True Leadership

“If [the true Leader] understands his function in any other way than as it is rooted in fact, if he does not continually tell his followers quite clearly of the limited nature…

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