As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair..

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himse….

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will..

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itsel….

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project..

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community..

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedi….

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the ou….

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for p….

I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of l….

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness..

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the a….

Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply,….

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near.

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet..

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment….

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary..

Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operat….

... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves..

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others..

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman….