“Because if you take it literally then you have a Bible that contradicts itself. Because the order in which God makes things in Genesis 2 contradicts Genesis 1……But if you believe that the Bible is true then you have to believe that they’re two different literary genres. You have to.” — Tim Keller A couple... Continue Reading

I am sorry, but there is more to the Christian life that praying, reading the Bible, and contemplating death. I’m sorry, but it is simply inconceivable to think that someone would use their personal “free” time—likely dozens of hours per week for average people, probably more for young people, and definitely so for people who... Continue Reading

There is a sense in which the thoughtful conversion of learned and gracious men in the North American context is understandable: here their chosen churches represent a certain liturgical gravitas and intellectual sophistication, particularly when compared to the loud and in-your-face antics of the rising evangelical swaggerati. A year or so back I was berated... Continue Reading

Pain had struck my mother’s stomach like a dagger. We were on our tour bus high in the Italian Alps. She moaned in agony all the way down the long winding road to the bottom of the mountains….God was faithful to me, his frightened and unsure child, even when I couldn’t be faithful to Him.... Continue Reading

That the current executive branch is unwilling to accommodate the Catholic Church on religious conscience is truly troubling. More troubling indeed is a real trampling of the “First Freedom,” religious liberty. It’s all largely lost and subservient to contemporary partisanship. Concerning the HHS mandate, somehow getting lost in the shuffle is the primacy of religious... Continue Reading

I like people, but conversation, it can wear me out. I have several close friends but I am not terribly motivated to make conversation with people I don’t know well. I have a good sense of humor, but mostly because I sit around by myself a lot thinking of funny things to say When my... Continue Reading

The end goal is the “blessed self-forgetfulness” that Tim Keller describes – a forgetfulness that frees us from fussing over ourselves so that we can worship and serve God. “Do I look pregnant, or do I look fat?” I hate to say it, but this question has become an almost daily occurrence in my household.... Continue Reading

Yet there is also an imaging relation or analogical relation between God and Adam that is the product of God’s creative will. So when we see analogies between human beings and chimpanzees, the presence of analogies does not tell us what generated them News media report confident claims about human origins. Science, it is said,... Continue Reading

Even worse, this intentional and vicious misinformation campaign is working. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that 63% of Americans support requiring insurers to cover contraception, while 33% oppose. How sad is it the American public is so easily duped. Last week Thursday, the Senate rejected by a 51-48 vote a bill that would have... Continue Reading

Pentecostals are a particular subgroup of evangelicals, who believe in the same basic doctrines but emphasize “the work of the Holy Spirit,” including healing, speaking in tongues,and prophesy. Evangelicals have been in the news a lot lately — from Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who plays and prays football with scriptures stenciled to his face,... Continue Reading