Seeing with God's Eyes

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow.

A Poem for the Brain

Gray, wrinkled, three-pound thing, I clearly see

I cannot trap you with an EEG,

You nervy organ, you, skull cased and free,

A brazen challenge to psychiatry.

Experiencing the Transcendent

Imagine a sheer, steep crag with a projecting edge at the top. Now imagine what a person would probably feel if he put his foot on the edge of this precipice ...

Christianity and Humanism

During construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable ...

Theology's Toughest Belief

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

The Unconsciously Incompetent

To be unconsciously incompetent is far from blissful ignorance. In fact, when I think about areas of my life where I don't know and don't know ...

Humor: Explanation of a Mistake

Cubs relief pitcher Bob Patterson described his pitch, which the Cincinnati Reds' Barry Larkin hit for a game-winning home run: "It was a cross between ...

The Passing Parade

If anything should put the "superstar" in his place, it's the fact that an interpreter's fame is ephemeral. ... The main thing is that the composers will ...

Making Life Worthwhile

Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account.

God's Favorite Miracles

Every believer is God's miracle.