Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky have helped us think better about so much of day-to-day life, as well as about thorny...

I write this on Good Friday 2018, but I could have written something like it on any day, any year. For the more some things change, it...

The new season of “Black Mirror,” a “Twilight Zone” TV program now produced by Netflix, opens with an episode nicely terrifying for our...

[This is another reposting from the blog I have over at “Context with Lorna Dueck“] Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts we can give...

With the National Football League season just underway, pennant races on in MLB, university and high school teams soon moving from...

As we approach the start of a new academic year, I’ve returned to the Maritimes after a summer at home in North Vancouver to take up my...

You don’t need me to tell you why this famous passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s great work, Nachfolge (“Following”–called The Cost of...

We Canadians and Americans have just emerged from the holiday weekend celebrating our respective countries’ nativities and histories....

The following is another contribution to my weblog, called “On Second Thought,” originally published via Context with Lorna Dueck....

Reading in Matthew 14 this morning, I was impressed afresh at the Apostle Peter’s audacity. I wonder if I, on the verge of 2016, will...

I’ve been enjoying teaching the basic concepts of my book Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World to students gathered...

As one looks at Jesus in the Gospels, one sees the Lord carving through the world as a straight line of integrity, purpose, holiness, and...

The Epistle to the Philippians begins with Paul identifying himself as a “slave of Messiah Jesus.” And, at the time, he might have felt...

If life has been disappointing, disillusioning, and worse—shocking, grievous, doomed—then what we crave is the predictable, the...

I’ve been privileged to serve as a columnist for Faith Today magazine here in Canada for two stints, the second of which continues to the...

Renovations… always require more demolition than we had anticipated, always make a bigger mess than we had hoped, always take longer than...

This post carries on from the last one: God is not our “everything.” God made us, in fact, with lots of needs that must be filled in lots...

Robert Louis Wilken’s magisterial study of The Spirit of Early Christian Thought concludes, as it ought, with the highest of concerns...

Please consider enrolling in one or both of the two courses we’re featuring this summer by Ruth Padilla DeBorst, a leading theological...

A friend of mine, Ralph Winter, has produced a wide range of movies, and many of them share a common trait: a character with super...