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The Practical Importance of the Spiritual Disciplines Bible BasicsFeatured Posts

The Practical Importance of the Spiritual Disciplines

Your body is central to your spiritual life. In fact, to say it’s the locus of your spiritual transformation is not an understatement. Lately, I’ve noticed an odd disconnect, though. A growing emphasis on healthy lifestyles is leading to a fitness revolution, especially among young people in North America. Take a look around. People are in better shape than they’ve…
June 20, 2023
3 Questions to Put Our Fear Into Perspective Bible BasicsFeatured Posts

3 Questions to Put Our Fear Into Perspective

Lately, I can’t stop thinking about Jesus asleep in the boat. The storm is surging; the vessel is filling with water; the disciples are scurrying. This is a historic scene, not some vivid illustration, but let’s pause for a moment to acknowledge its fittingness as a metaphor for our cultural moment. Though not facing brutal persecution, our North American churches…
May 23, 2023
Default Paradise CultureFeatured Posts

Default Paradise

W.H. Auden says, “All the judgments, aesthetic or moral, that we pass, however objective we try to make them, are in part a rationalization and in part a corrective discipline of our subjective wishes.” It is therefore incumbent on critics, maintains Auden, to spell out clearly their version of Eden in a spirit of intellectual honesty. Though he’s being somewhat…
May 16, 2023
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Community and the Creative Spirit

Nietzsche With the Voice of an Angel   Ralph Waldo Emerson’s seminal essay, “Self Reliance,” remains the great paean to American individualism. As with all the man’s writings, it’s equal parts quotable and intoxicating, making the task of choosing a representative statement a formidable one. But choose we must and the following will serve our purposes well: "O father, O mother,…
April 13, 2023
What Are We to Make of the Revival at Asbury? CultureFeatured Posts

What Are We to Make of the Revival at Asbury?

  A Note of Hesitancy As of this writing, the events unfolding in the auditorium of Asbury’s chapel are getting more and more difficult to explain away. What began as a routine chapel service on Wednesday, February 8th has transformed into a perpetual worship service, drawing crowds from all around the nation, and indeed from around the world. Pictures from…
February 23, 2023
How to Be a Hopeful Realist CultureFeatured PostsLiving Out Your FaithSpiritual Formation

How to Be a Hopeful Realist

Why We Think Hope is Unrealistic  Ironically, we often mistake hope for hopelessness. Look no further than the early stages of the pandemic in 2020. Driving through the spooky stillness of the first lockdown, I came across a marquee boldly declaring, “Hope is not canceled!” All of the shows at this particular venue were canceled, of course, along with the…
January 11, 2023