My last post answered questions from Down Under about why we should trouble ourselves to try to answer life’s most troubling questions:...

Today is the Feast of St. Stephen, one of the two sad days during the Twelve Days of Christmas. Unlike the other sad day, the Feast of...

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...

The stereotype of the schizophrenic is a poor soul beleaguered by a cacophony of voices telling him what to do. But we all now are...

Faith is often defined as a posture, an attitude, especially a posture or attitude of trust. I have gladly defined it that way myself....

The world’s most popular religion, the world’s largest social movement, the world’s most believed Theory of Everything depends on...

I’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...

Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...

[This was originally posted in March 2019] The late neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—he wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife...

There are two tragedies in life, to paraphrase the famous line from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. One is to fail to gain your...

When someone sits down to specify orthodoxy, he is up to something. Count on it.

Last week I chided the CBC’s Neil Macdonald for his outburst against people of faith whom he clearly would prefer to keep out of sight in...

Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...

Chicago Bears football fans, among which I number myself, having cheered for them since our seven years’ sojourn in the Windy City in the...