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May 28, 2012 Uncategorized

Thinking Well Matters

SIX QUESTIONS . . . I write and publish books as a sort of thanks offering—a debt offering—and I teach future pastors at a divinity school because I believe that thinking well matters.

May 25, 2012 Uncategorized

Life-Long Learners 17.0

Seventeenth in an expert series on must-read books.

May 23, 2012 Uncategorized

American Heretics

While too benevolent, and even-handed to a fault, Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion offers diagnosis and prescriptions for American Christianity that are spot on.

May 22, 2012 Uncategorized

Do Not Open—No User Serviceable Parts Inside

Why do so many of us have to work where the windows don’t open? Engineers, architects, and lawyers have their reasons, but must workplaces be less humane than homes?

May 18, 2012 Uncategorized

Morality, markets, and Michael Sandel

In Santa Ana in California prisoners can buy a cell upgrade. In Dallas, Texas, underachieving children are paid to read books. These are, alas, some of the saner and less offensive illustrations Michael Sandel offers.

May 16, 2012 Uncategorized

Faith in China?

How striking to hear a well-known Chinese intellectual insist that the Christianity he saw in the villages of Yunnan, in rugged southwest China, is now as indigenous as the region’s famous buckwheat cakes.

May 14, 2012 Uncategorized

If Wishing Made it So: Teaching Students to Make Change

Parents and teachers want children to have the skills to make a difference. But what can we teach to help them survive their teen years, 20s, and 30s with convictions and character intact?

May 11, 2012 Uncategorized

A Letter to my Daughter, Upon her Graduation from Christian School

A reminder that you are the masterwork of a majestic Creator

May 9, 2012 Uncategorized

The Church Fathers and a Christian’s Response

From Justin Martyr, Athanasius the Great, and John Chrysostom, we learn lessons on inexhaustibly defending our faith in public.

May 7, 2012 Uncategorized

Theological Quibbles for Public Officials

We were not created for heaven. We were created for earth. And someone who sees God constantly acting in and through this world might be a little more attentive to what he’s doing when drafting policies, or voting.

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