Occupation: Writer Birth: 1965
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that….
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides ….
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern person….
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the dir….
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience..
The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insuff….
Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, t….
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pil….
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining priso….
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But….
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the m….
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of oth….
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience..
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word con….
physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be expl….
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model ….
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -….
Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the….
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hope….
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former..
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciou….