With clear recognition that the following is, for me, in the “aspiration” column rather than the “accomplishment” column, I set out for you this classic, challenging, hopeful, terrifying passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison. I will, again, … Continued
Piety
C. S. Lewis on Avoiding God
Blaise Pascal, of course, offers classic observations in his Pensées on how industriously we avoid God and ultimate issues such as virtue and death by insulating ourselves with wraps of comfort and insurance while diverting ourselves with entertainments and gossip. I … Continued
What Christianity Means (Note: Not “to Me”)
One of the insidious developments among my students, readers, auditors, and interlocutors is consumerism about theology. Instead of arguing, say, about whether this or that understanding of the Atonement was right or wrong, was true to the Biblical data and … Continued