We live in a culture that is permeated by a critical mindset – one that reduces reality to what can be seen and measured and human flourishing to career success and material acquisition. In such a culture, religion is often dismissed and looked down upon. In this video, I discuss the experience of the many… Read More The Plight of the Modern Person
It was while reading a bedtime story one night that journalist and TED Talk presenter Carl Honoré realized that he had lost his grip on time. He was skipping pages of the story in order to get back to work more quickly, and his son, who knew every word by heart, was having none of… Read More Sowing the Seeds of Eternity
Who is the refugee? Who do I recognize myself to be when confronted with the refugee? How does the politicization of refugees hurt and help them? What responsibility do faith communities have to respond to this crisis? What concretely can we do to respond? These are a few of the burning questions tackled earlier this… Read More Hope and Wisdom Prevail at Princeton Conference on Forced Migration
My wife and I are one month away from being homeless…at least we thought we might be until yesterday. We are currently in the process of buying a house, and everything was moving along smoothly until the inspector discovered an abandoned oil tank under the driveway. If it turned out that the tank had leaks,… Read More We Are All Refugees…Some of Us Just Don’t Know It
This past week I buried my father-in-law. It was a hard week but also beautiful, and it reaffirmed my conviction about what I had written a few days before. In a Christmas Day post, I recollected how throughout history God has used seemingly insignificant people and events to bring about the most wondrous transformations–liberation from… Read More A Humble, Transformative Life Remembered
“I can’t wait for 2016 to end.” I have heard numerous people utter these words lately, and I know what they mean. 2016 brought the fifth anniversary of an atrocious war in Syria, Brexit, the election of a self-professed murderer to the presidency of the Philippines, not to mention another slew of shootings on US… Read More The Significance of Christmas for a Troubled America
Thank God that’s over. For the better part of two years now we have endured the grating sounds of the presidential candidates’ name-calling and heckling. We have listened to them criticize each other’s worst flaws and those of their supporters. Week after week we have been told that America has lost its greatness, that it… Read More Thank God the Election Is Over…Except It Isn’t
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