How would you feel about my neighbour (true story!) who was so frustrated with mice in his cabin that he boasted about lavishly spreading poison all over his yard? How would you feel listening to this, knowing that all the local chipmunks disappeared? Jesus counseled us to love our neighbours as ourselves but never said…
We are an increasingly visual culture, so it is good to learn from a long Christian tradition of showing the faith through images. Eve Tibbs, Orthodox Christian and professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical bastion, addresses this challenge with her lovely book Seeing the Gospel: An Interpretive Guide to Orthodox Icons. Intriguingly, prestigious Calvinist…
The first church I pastored, in inner-city Chicago, just moved its worship services online because the Mexican congregants fear Sunday morning ICE raids. Signs of tough times are all around. Two recent books don’t just counsel against despair, but suggest ways to move forward while deeply rooting ourselves in our faith. Towards resistance Hannah Reichel…
The global legacy and influence of a Reformed scholar and educator will live on in Canada, with the opening of the H. Evan Runner Reading Room at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario, in his honour. And what will be available for visitors to read? The personal libraries and papers of his students: two equally influential…
In the back row of my university classroom, I could not stop crying. I was in my second year, studying philosophical logic and there I was, shedding tears and more tears. A month earlier, my only sibling Margaret had died of leukemia. She was 17 and I 20. The grief felt unremitting. I did not…
I want to make it spiritual / but only remember bouncing, / barely balanced on the slick / rubbery hull of a dinghy / near Caño Island, Costa Rica. / I am one in a row of divers / waiting for the command / to roll backwards into the ocean.
When Tony Campolo died late in 2024, he was almost 90 and one of the most recognizable names in contemporary evangelicalism. He was the son of immigrant working class Italians in Philadelphia, his family having converted from Roman Catholicism to fundamentalist Baptist. Campolo was a lifelong American Baptist and a lifelong Democrat (eventually a spiritual…
It can be difficult to define beauty. In his new book, Wesley Vander Lugt understands beauty to be traces of divine glory in the natural world and in human culture. He aims to show readers why beauty’s impact is necessary to a vibrant faith and hope. Vander Lugt, a teacher of theology and a director…
Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matt. 5:17) We have just entered Epiphany, the season of Immanuel/Emmanuel (“I” in Hebrew, “E” in Greek). In Hebrew, im means “with;” nu means “us;” and el is the generic word for “God.” The word “Immanuel”…
Since its start, the Church has been changed by new technologies – from the printing press to cars. But the rate at which those changes are coming has quickened from centuries to decades to days. Previous generations had years to understand new technology. Now, AI tools to help pastors are coming out almost weekly, and…
The first human temptation was about power; Adam and Eve thought they could be like God. Cain killed Abel because sin overpowered him. Even Jesus was tempted to use his power for his own selfish needs, to test God, and to succeed by the world’s ways. Jesus resisted the devil’s options for power, but most…
“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him” (Prov. 26:4). “Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes” (Prov. 26:5). These back-to-back proverbs contradict each other. My wife and I joke that she tends more toward the latter…
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