2011 - Comment Magazine

Nov 16, 2011 Essay

Non-Profit “Moneyball”

Drawing from Moneyball some reminders for struggling ministries, nonprofits, and businesses.

Nov 14, 2011 Essay

How and Why We Should Read the Poetry of the Old Testament for Public Life Today

What has been written with imagination, let us read with imagination.

Nov 11, 2011 Uncategorized

Christ and the Cubicle: A Meditation on Place

Every place has meaning—and some places mean more than others.

Nov 9, 2011 Uncategorized

Remembering Arthur Holmes

I am indebted to Art Holmes not only for my calling to be philosopher, but also for some of the themes that are foundational to my own teaching and writing.

Nov 7, 2011 Uncategorized

God-honouring Public Service in an Ungodly Government

Our careers and our human institutions are made of clay, not lasting gold and silver. Yet they are means through which we experience the satisfaction of serving God and contributing to the wellbeing of others, in this place of exile.

Nov 4, 2011 Uncategorized

Isaiah’s Vision for Human Security

Next in our series on the OT and public life . . . Isaiah interpreted world politics through his theology of international relations, voicing a radical form of wellbeing not brought about by the tools of statecraft.

Nov 2, 2011 Uncategorized

Spectacle and Society

What is missing from the warehouse or shopping mall church is a deep connection with what the Christian worshipper believes and thinks.

Oct 31, 2011 Uncategorized

School choice and certain vulnerability

Are Christian schools and public schools equally worthy? Why I teach in one but enrolled my children in the other.

Oct 28, 2011 Uncategorized

Tourists and Pilgrims at Sinai

Send even the slightest signal that you are a pilgrim and everything changes.

Oct 26, 2011 Uncategorized

Moused-eared worldview

There is something more to Disney World. Alongside the modern notion of disenchantment is a powerful human need to be enchanted, to fill the vacuum left by old convictions.

Year: 2011