Slogan or Message?

We must be aware of trivializing the gospel, of presenting it in a form that compromises the radicality of its message. If someone is used to seeing or ...

The Love of Money in America

No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American ...

Avoid the Cactus

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

Forgetting the Point of It All

Max De Pree tells a wonderful story, and he swears that it's true, about those wonderful tomato growers in central California. More successful at ...

March Celebrations

Did you know that March is National Noodle Month?

It's true. It's also National Frozen Food Month, National Peanut Month, and, to top it all off, National ...

At the Awkward Age

Christians are in an awkward intermediate stage in Western culture: having once been culturally established, they are not yet clearly disestablished. ...

Tolerating the Unimportant

Gibbon ... said that in Roman society all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally ...

Prideful Deceits

Let's--all of us--decide to stop trying to convince the world that Christianity is true because Jesus makes us prettier, happier, thinner, wealthier, ...

Bored with a Boring God?

I do not know why so much of mainline Protestantism has become a joyless religion. Perhaps we are more impressed by the problems of the world than by ...

Real Success and Real Failure

Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways ...