Essay Archives

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

What’s Under the Apple?

Products become obsolete; people grow. Which legacy of leadership is likely to stand the test of time?

Mar 1, 2012 Essay Legacies

To Play Well With Others: A Letter of Gratitude to Jim Henson

“Who knows? You could make millions of people happy.”

Feb 6, 2012 Essay

Art: Mystique or Mystery?

With Christ’s Incarnation, we can have it both ways.

Feb 1, 2012 Essay

The Devil Plays Catan

A game can be a fecund womb through which habitual evil is birthed.

Jan 6, 2012 Essay

“Still”-Christmas: A Case for a Bonus-Track Holiday

Christmas: worth celebrating a while longer.

Jan 2, 2012 Essay

Libya and the Responsibility to Protect

How ought Christians think of policy and just war criteria in protecting the vulnerable?

Dec 16, 2011 Essay

Graduate Education, Soulcraft, and the Formation Nexus

Too many graduate programs are designed according to an information paradigm and not a formation paradigm.

Dec 5, 2011 Essay

How Universal is Wisdom Literature?

The Wisdom Books—the part of the Old Testament, perhaps of the Bible, that seems most universal in their appeal at first glance—have an overriding purpose that still challenges the non-believing reader.

Nov 21, 2011 Essay

The Old Testament, “Holy War” and Christian Morality

If we listen to the music of “holy wars” without the full symphony of Scripture, we will likely distort both.

Nov 16, 2011 Essay

Non-Profit “Moneyball”

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

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