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Jul 6, 2011 Essay

“Pray more” is not counselling

The work of counselling helps persons discover new things about themselves and develop these patterns in a helpful direction.

Jul 4, 2011 Essay

Art: a Gift of God

Art serves the pivotal role of tapping into our imagination to offer a vision of what human flourishing might look like in the various spheres of life.

Jul 1, 2011 Essay

Neither Salad Bowl, Nor Melting Pot

The body of Christ preserves both unity and diversity without privileging either.

Jun 29, 2011 Essay

Taking the Game a Little More Seriously

Like a gang or a platoon of soldiers, a sports team forms its members. The question is this: is it forming to the right end?

Jun 2, 2011 Essay Summer reading

I know what you read last summer

High-brow or low-brow, genre or literary, timeless or trendy—read what you like.

Apr 8, 2011 Essay

The Art of the Spreadsheet

What we miss when we limit creativity to “the arts” is the innumerable ways that humans express their creative nature in all kinds of work.

Mar 18, 2011 Essay

The Art of Friendship

I spent my entire twenties searching for the ideal, elite, Inkling-like friendship . . . and living with a loneliness that I was afraid publicly to admit.

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

WikiLeaks, WikiLeakers, and WikiEthics

WikiLeaks is neither laudatory nor brave. On balance, it is a force for serious harm even allowing that it could entail some good.

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

Letter to a Young Pastor

As I recall Eugene Peterson writing once, teaching and preaching is the kind of talk that produces new people.

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

Letter to a Young Curmudgeon

As a species, we are Homo Hearing Disabled. We are the eternal kid at the back of the classroom staring out the window while God himself is telling us what we need to know for the exam.

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“Pray more” is not counselling

Art: a Gift of God

Neither Salad Bowl, Nor Melting Pot

Taking the Game a Little More Seriously

I know what you read last summer

The Art of the Spreadsheet

The Art of Friendship

WikiLeaks, WikiLeakers, and WikiEthics

Letter to a Young Pastor

Letter to a Young Curmudgeon

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