A few years ago, Harvard scholar and author, James Wood, wrote a review of Bart Ehrman’s, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer, entitled “Holiday in Hellmouth.” Wood is an eloquent, penetrating, and…
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
This past Friday, a twenty-year-old man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with loaded weapons and brutally murdered twenty-six people. A majority of the victims were kindergarteners. Wickedness to this degree takes one’s breath away. The otherwise peaceful…
This past Friday, a twenty-year-old man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with loaded weapons and brutally murdered twenty-six people. A majority of the victims were kindergarteners. Wickedness to this degree takes one’s breath away. The otherwise peaceful…
It is arguable that the last hundred years have witnessed an interesting reversal in Western society, where the great taboo of the Victorian era and the great obsession of the same period have dramatically switched places. The great taboo for…
The Welsh have not (generally) adopted that legacy of Platonism in post-Renaissance culture, commonly called “the stiff upper-lip.” The Welsh, you see, give voice to their complaints with reckless abandonment. Typical here is Wales’s most famous twentieth century poet and…
We Christians are caught in a dilemma: it is captured succinctly by Amos: “Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?” (Amos 3:6). It is simply not an option for us to remove God from the…
Lisa and I believe that from the day our children first arrive in our home, our calling is to prepare them for the day when they will leave. It takes a long time for them fully to learn what it…
Genesis 3:15 gives one of the Bible’s greatest promises. It is God’s curse against the serpent, and his first proclamation of the gospel: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he…
