As theologically mature as we are professionally competent. These words and the vision that brings them into being have been threading their way through my life for years. Do we want to be? Could we be? How is it possible to be? I first heard them from James Houston, founder of Regent College who left...
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“I knew I couldn’t believe a word that Putin said. His appointment made me determined to resist. I didn’t want someone of that kind to be the leader of my country.” Once upon a time I dropped out of college, and began a pilgrimage into the rest of my life, asking questions about the world,...
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What is Christmas? Thousands of words have been written, hundreds of songs sung—the centuries are full of hope, longing for the day when all sad things will become untrue, Tolkiens’ words speaking for everyone everywhere. In a world where Fate is the first and last word, where things are as they are because they always...
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Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” This past weekend I was in Houston, the vastness of Texas constrained in one metropolis that goes on and on… together with good people from all over America and the world. For several days we had deep conversations about things that matter to all of...
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“I don’t like either the word [hiking] or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains — not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages...
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I’m not a romantic. There is too much that’s wrong in the world, and given my days and years I have listened to too much heartache and seen too much sorrow. Not only that which is the most profoundly personal, of disappointments and griefs which are the heart of our deepest hearts, but that which...
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