• Why Beauty Matters
    Beauty is powerful. It may be the most powerful thing on earth. It is dangerous. Because it matters. Let us try to explain why. First, beauty speaks. Oxford bishop Richard Harries wrote, "It is the beauty of the created order which gives an answer to our questionings about God." And we do have questions, don't we? Questions born out of our dis […]
  • Failing While Daring Greatly
    “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson The narrow road to becoming a man of noble strength and love inevitably involves a poignant list of as many failures as it does sucesses. I’ve been receiving a lot lately from Brene Brown and her teaching and world class research […]
  • Our Careful Unbelief
    . . . do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on —Matthew 6:25Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as unbelief. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will squeeze right … […]
  • ‘Gay Marriage’ is a Public Threat
    Is opposition to gay ‘marriage’ about warding off a public threat, or policing private morality? Is it about imposing religiously-derived categories onto a secular public, or protecting our way of life? These questions recently came to mind when I stumbled … Continue reading → […]
  • Reflection for the Week- May 13th, 2013
    Fiction making may not be self-deceptive. That which leads us outside ourselves is at least potentially informative about what is real and true. Taking a too direct view of who one is – gazing only at oneself – will inevitably... […]
  • Romans 15:2
    “Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.” […]