In the recent Academy Award-winning movie Arrival, one character asks another a compelling question: If you could see your whole life...

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

As Canada has begun a new era of officially sanctioned, physician-assisted suicide, one is struck by the almost complete absence of a...

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...

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...

I’ve been musing through a collection of Advent poems by my favourite poet, Luci Shaw, entitled Accompanied by Angels. (Take up and read...

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

As I face a new week and seek to get properly oriented on a Monday morning, my reading in Acts arrests me. When Stephen is recounting to...

A Christian friend whom I know to be godly, serious, pious…and very successful in a highly competitive and demanding career…sent me the...

Thomas Merton, writing in New Seeds of Contemplation (1961), reminds us that “our faith is weak. Indeed, too often the weakest thing...

In the wake of the Newtown school shooting, I’ve been asked to comment since I am a theologian by profession and the author of a book on...

ITEM: “Public Safety Minister Vic Toews mandated that the federal prison system’s 71 full-time chaplains, who are overwhelmingly...

I don’t get enough attention. You might think I do, but I don’t. Do you? I’ll bet you don’t, either. Some people get more attention than...

Some colleagues in psychology at UBC recently published a study that suggests that analytic thinking tends to promote religious...

Many of us wonder, particularly in the face of evil, why an omnipotent God didn’t just do things differently–you know, the way you and I...

“Depend upon it, sir,” said Samuel Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”...

Regent Audio is making available my recent chapel talk on suffering as a free download here. I hope some of you will find it worthwhile....