What does faithful witness look like today? Christian witness is not cut and paste. It takes discernment and reflection to recognize how best to respond to cultural challenges new and old. Ancient challenges to the faith may need a different sort of answer today than they did centuries ago, and […]
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A 28 Day Advent Devotional “You can never lose or forget joy if you become joy.” Junius Johnson, Reflection on White Christmas It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Advent is the season of wonder, of magic, of childlike longing. It is a time of dragons and unicorns, even […]
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A Guide to Wonder in Preaching “And finally let him preach this overwhelming of tragedy by comedy, of darkness by light, of the ordinary by the extraordinary, as the tale that is too good not to be true because to dismiss it as untrue is to dismiss along with it […]
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Connecting Your Child’s Imagination with Their Learning “To learn to read is to light a fire.” Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Reading books is the number one way to push back against the limitations set to your life by time, space, culture, economic realities, and peer pressure. The world is immediately […]
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Understanding the Translation of Scripture It is a strange thing to only or primarily have access to your holy text through translations. It raises a lot of questions: how accurate is this translation? Does it have an agenda? Is the text read in translation the inspired text, or just a […]
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Explore How Your Experience of Beauty Intersects with Faith in God Our experience of beauty drives our desires, and our desires drive our actions. We tend to follow our passions down a path that leads us to becoming one type of person or another: and so, beauty shapes who we […]
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Theological Reflections on Imagination, Wonder, and Beauty “To think God through a creature is to be elevated by thinking of a creature to thinking of God as if through an intermediary stairway.” Bonaventure, Commentary on the Sentences “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love” (1 Co. 13:13). St. […]
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Understanding Christian Apologetics “But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord has holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” 1 Pet. 3:15 (ESV) Apologia in Greek means […]
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The Practices and Principles that Shape our Engagement with Scripture The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are foundational for the Christian faith, both from the standpoint of doctrine and practice. It is not surprising, therefore, that they have been subjected to every sort of dispute and debate: how […]
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