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

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

I missed writing about Timothy and Titus (26 January), John Chrysostom (27 January), and Thomas Aquinas (28 January). So let me just say...

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...

Here and here are two recent posts, for Christian Scholar’s Review, on my recent reading of an essay by Christian philosopher Nicholas...

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...

My friend Tom Morris recently reminisced on Facebook about teachers who had blessed him in special ways over his life. His poignant...

What is at stake goes far beyond the question of evangelical missionary work.

I recently returned from a trip to New York City to enjoy our middle son performing at a Theater District cabaret. (We couldn’t get him...

“Not too bad.” That’s the common reply on the prairies to a friendly “How are you?” It’s also common out here in my new home in the...

NASA recently celebrated the end of the unlikely long run of the Kepler spacecraft. Sent up in 2009, this marvelous flying telescope...

Since most people who invite speakers (and the same goes for musicians, I daresay) are not themselves professional speakers, and...

[The following is my address to the academic chapel of Crandall University this past September.] “The lyf so short, the craft so long to...

[NOTE: This originally appeared in Geez (Winter 2012): 38-39. I sent a copy to a friend recently, and it made me think others might like...

Yes, yes, I know. It’s horrible, but one can’t look away. The slow-motion car wreck that, for many of us, is the U.S. presidency...

As the time for Tenebrae (Latin “darkness”) services has come again, one thinks of the shrinking circle of light in the Passion narrative...

Remember Biafra? If you’re of a certain age—likely, 60 years old or more—you might remember magazine covers and TV shows devoted to the...

Yesterday was the big celebration of the astonishing gift of “another life,” as they say in video games. How will you spend it?

On this hand, I agree with the general advice that the Ph.D. demands too much time and money to pursue it unless you have a job in mind...