Missing the Miracles

Too many times we miss so much because we live on the low level of the natural, the ordinary, the explainable. We leave no room for God to do the exceeding ...

Hard Assignments

We do not want suffering; we want success. We identify not with those who are low and hurt but with those who are high and healthy. We don't like ...

Misplaced Passion

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

When Good Business Is Bad Business

The church appears to be adopting the principles and practices of big business and finding these practices very effective.

Now there is nothing wrong with ...

Busyness as Addiction

The Desert Fathers (a protest movement against worldliness in the early church) spoke of busyness as "moral laziness." Busy-ness can also be ...

World Movers

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Religion and Change

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.

A Social Researcher's Faith

[O]nly a fool would argue that the church should change its doctrine to keep up with the times. One does not arrive at moral judgments by counting noses. ...

From Morality to "Ethics"

How do we create symbolic virtue? We take the standards of morality that we have inherited from past generations. Then we "drain" away the idea ...

Truth on the Block

The supplanting of sound values by the world's methods of popularity and success may be clouding the influence of the Bible upon our writing. This ...