I teach Christian ethics, among other subjects, and I have found that trying to properly introduce the virtues is always an unsatisfying...

As a Canadian with a nodding acquaintance of things American (I pursued graduate studies including American religious history at Wheaton...

Did Jesus really die on a cross merely to inspire honorable, but otherwise unremarkable, lives?

Reasonable people of good will can be understandably confused about some of the knottier questions regarding native land claims,...

Scholars of the Bible recognize the pattern of blessing + cursing in the Book of Deuteronomy. As Jesus gave his Beatitudes, I wonder if...

Even the movements under Gandhi and King provoked tremendous violence and highly ambiguous outcomes

In Mark 9:33-37, Jesus asks his disciples what they were talking about on the road. What they should have been talking about was what he...

Observation: If you hear the first nine, it doesn’t matter about the tenth. The conversation is already over. Only politics remains.

A friend grieves the news of a report on Ravi Zacharias’s awful sins. And there are more on the public record now that don’t show up in...

I’ve held fire on this subject until now. But a number of folk have asked me to comment, and the court cases are increasing across...

A couple of friends have asked me why I’m uncharacteristically mordant about certain people I have dealt with on social media. These...

Ministries that Think They Can Do No Financial Wrong Are Deceiving Themselves I published this article twenty years ago. I regret to say...

The ignoramus who wrote in the WSJ about Jill Biden not being a real doctor (because she isn’t a physician, but holds a Doctor of...

City streets are filling with demonstrators on behalf of black and indigenous victims of police brutality, and against racism generally....

It’s easy to mock all the statue-removers as crazy mobs accomplishing nothing on behalf of the real victims of racism, past and present....

The Coalition Avenir Québec continues its remarkable record of concentrating power in the provincial government on behalf of its pure...

So says William Gibson, the American author who followed his wife to her native Vancouver and from there has spun out his tales of the...

Sadly, of course, both political parties and the political press insist on characterizing modern elections in just this way. Leaders, not...

The New York Times recently featured a meditation on “The New Spiritual Consumerism: On shows like ‘Queer Eye,’ makeovers, shopping and...

This week we confront the appalling suffering of the Rohingya people at the hands of their fierce former neighbours in Myanmar/Burma....