Today is the day when the cheap grace of triumphalism is shown to be a fraud. Today is the day when those who use the

John 13:3-5: Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to

I ’m reading the novel The Plague by Albert Camus at the moment. It’s set in French-Algerian Oran, and follows Dr. Bernard Rieux as he

What many Christians are going to miss most about Easter Sunday in five days are precisely the things the actual Gospels mostly also are missing. 

Jesus said at his crucifixion, “For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:31). I

Revelation 21:1-22:7 We were on vacation and had been traveling for almost three weeks. Everyone—I, my wife, and my three young daughters—was tired. We were

My granddaughter was, back then, just a little girl, third grade maybe, but one Sunday morning, I remember, she was already starting to wax nostalgic.

She wrote to me exasperated, looking for some clarity.* It was two weeks ago or so, and her church staff was in a panic about