On Conviction
I believe that God sees enough glimmers of faith and goodwill in our everyday conduct to keep Him convicted of our worth.
Why I Believe We Need Better Religious Education
Only 10 percent of American teenagers could name the world’s 5 major religions.
Humanity
A definition. A rationalization. An attribute. An un-plumbable well of existence.
Why I Don’t Believe in Myself
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
The Wildness of God
God’s wildness is a multiplied version of the boot-quaking awe we experience when we gaze upon the Grand Canyon.
Principles of Something
For this reason, merely believing in “something” is not half-hearted or vague, but both mind-blowing and earth-shattering.
Behold, I Have Invented God
In a word: I am so hopelessly imperfect it frequently causes me to crawl into a blanket fort and wish the world away.
Fly the W
If anyone in contemporary America can sympathize with the frustration of first-century Christians awaiting the imminent return of Christ, it’s we Cubs fans.
Stereogram
Where moments before had been only a slew of green speckles, I could suddenly see a crouching frog. It had been there all along; I just hadn’t had the skill, the “sight,” to notice it before.
Why Tax Day Should be in October
Because of my extension, my tax deadline fell in a period of the liturgical year called Ordinary Time, which seems more apt than the traditional timing of Tax Day, so close to Passion Week.
