After Easter
This morning I came downstairs to find two of the young women in my life (age 2 and age 4, respectively), lifting up hockey sticks in the entry way and…
Philip Ryken
My Brother’s Keeper
Recently I read Otherwise, a collection of new and selected poems by Jane Kenyon, including the last poems she wrote before dying of leukemia in 1995. One of my favorite…
Velvet Theology
In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell writes: “And when Jesus died on the cross he died for everybody. Everybody.Everywhere.Every tribe, every nation, every tongue, every people group.Jesus said that when he…
An Un-Easter Un-Present
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released 15 (illegally held, by all objective accounts) British prisoners this week, he claimed that he was doing so “on the occasion of the birthday…
The Depth of the Father’s Love
Yesterday we held our traditional Good Friday worship service at Tenth Presbyterian Church. We meet at noon — a good time for Center City workers to come over on a…
Easter Forever!
I find it hard not to envy the disciples a little. They were there for the first Easter. Therefore, they were the first to hear the good news of the…
First Class Forever
As a loyal Philadelphian, I was more than a little pleased to see the design the U.S. Postal Service unveiled last week for its permanent stamp. The cost of postage…
The Bible and the Public School
Reformation21 readers should be sure not to miss the April 2 cover story in Time magazine: “Why We Should Teach the Bible in Public School.” David Van Biema is much…
A Child of the Creative Age
In the opening address at a recent conference in New York sponsored by the International Arts Movement, Mako Fujimura made the following provocative comment about Christianity and the arts: “Theologically,…
The Return of King Tut
King Tut has returned–this time to Philadelphia. Having first been rediscovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, and having toured the world in the most popular exhibition ever…