Occupation: Theologian Birth: January 23, 1953
The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more lik….
Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven..
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end o….
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive i….
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something….
For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts to convey the multi….
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with….
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish..
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters h….
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through gra….
All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are..
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing..
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone..
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that….
Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God..
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it..
Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus una….
The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is,….
Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them..
Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too grea….