“Miscarriage is a pain too often unacknowledged. Yet it is real, and what [women who have miscarried] have lost is real. We feel sorrow and we weep because our babies were real.”   Recently, several couples have publicly spoken of the deep emotional pain they experienced at the death of their preborn child. When Chrissy... Continue Reading

Sometimes we do have to take sides. In many cases, however, we don’t. We don’t have to form firm opinions. We may have concerns. We may have suspicions. But in many cases, it’s the better part of wisdom to leave the matter with the Lord.    Read Part 1. What Should We Think? If I polled... Continue Reading

I learned what I have long suspected, that Twitter is not entirely representative of Christianity—left or right, white or black.  Perhaps the future lies with that gracious but understandably more timid group stepping forward and gently but firmly taking over the reins of the discussion from today’s loudest voices.   Some years ago, I took... Continue Reading

Over the course of the 20th Century, capitalism moulded the ordinary person into a consumer. Kerryn Higgs traces the historical roots of the world’s unquenchable thirst for more stuff.   The notion of human beings as consumers first took shape before World War One, but became commonplace in America in the 1920s. Consumption is now... Continue Reading

Sin was the air we breathed, and the god we served. And if God had not intervened, it would have dragged us, lifeless and hopeless, to hell.   I believe in…the forgiveness of sins. (Apostles’ Creed) An awful storm fell on the still fragile church in Rome. The emperor had demanded that Christians be arrested, their... Continue Reading

The Gospel is not mysterious because it is hard to understand. It is mysterious because it is unexpected, unmerited, and free.   So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and... Continue Reading

If the GOP is to have a future outside the fever dreams of internet trolls, we have to call out falsehoods and conspiracy theories unequivocally. We have to repudiate people who peddle those lies.   Eugene Goodman is an American hero. At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly... Continue Reading

While we live in the city of man, Revelation stirs in us a longing for the city of God. It exerts the gravitation pull of hope while we live in this world. But that longing is for more than relief from sin and suffering, more than delight in heavenly habitation; it is a longing for... Continue Reading

Do you trust God’s faithfulness to deliver again in the midst of your daily detours? Perhaps you feel it now each time you leave your home: the great unknown awaits out in public.    Traffic stood still. That’s never a good thing when you’re traversing the Pennsylvania Turnpike. After thirty minutes without moving, curiosity began... Continue Reading

The troubled days in which we live can easily depress or pollute and we need to renew our focus on righteousness and God our righteous judge—this will bring help, hope, and comfort to God’s church.   By any fair reckoning, this last year has been abnormal – yet the current covid-19 crisis was eclipsed momentarily,... Continue Reading