Belief at Christmas is neither neat nor safe. It is the path that leads to the manger and, from there, to the cross.
Are you looking for rest? Is your heart cluttered? Are you searching for comfort? Just look at the King-sized bed.
The Great King comes for us.

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Stories like Onoda’s offer an interesting parallel to our life in the Gospel.
These new texts and manuscripts, while not altering the message of the text, can give us better insight into particular historical and grammatical issues.
The story of these faithful Christians serves to highlight the roles of both Africa and martyrdom in the early church and today.
What follows is a little crash course in how to read Calvin with respect, for our benefit, and with an eye to how we keep Reformation giants at a proper historical arms distance.
We can’t all afford to travel the world, but the more we read from outside our own context, the bigger we see the world.
When the church has gone astray, it has been the responsible (not slavish) approach to history that has helped correct the course.
Perhaps best known for his “wager,” Pascal is often associated with this curious argument for the existence of God and eternal blessedness.
The 'church' is neither your mega-complex nor is it you alone with your own private devotions.
Throughout the centuries, “Inferno” has also played a large role in the development of Christianity, particularly in the Western Medieval church.
When orthodoxy becomes a Law, heterodoxy can feel like the Gospel.
He is significant, not as a founder of his own movement, but for setting the procrustean bed of the particularly American church with its dogmatizing yet broad ecumenical stances.