“We [still] need to counter the world’s standards of identity and worth based on performance, on biology, on comparison/competition, on acquisition, on conformance, or on exclusion . . . From a biblical perspective, our identities and self-worth are rooted in the relationships we have with God, with our fellow humans, and with God’s creation.”
Today Comment reprints reflections from 2004 that are equally imperative seven years on.
Seventh in an expert series on must-read books.
Jennings’s new book is a valuable contribution to the theology of race conversation—one that needs many more voices—but it still leaves some questions unanswered.
The church has awakened to its missional identity—and its responsibility to witness without exacerbating the tensions of our world.
Canada’s fiscal situation today is admired the world over, but it hasn’t always been this way. In the midst of the U.S. debt crisis, today Comment reprints a 1993 article from its founding editor, a piece which can still bear fruit today.
There is much room in sport for evil, as our headlines sometimes suggest, but there is also great capacity for goodness.
The story Brooks tells—while filling in the reductionist modern narratives about what we really are—includes some flimsy, charm-like religion inserted as science.
In his provocative book The Republic of Grace, Mathewes suggests how Christians can cultivate hope in their political lives despite the pervasive brokenness in the world.
Sixth in an expert series on must-read books.
Every reader of every publication, including News of the World, battles villainy from within themselves and without.
From ancient Greece to TikTok, we have debated whether stories are worth all the fuss.
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