There is always a reason not to open a book. There is always an excuse to not pick up a pen and paper, or to open a blank page on our laptop. The weather is too nice. The weather is too bad. There is no time. The timing isn’t right. There is no inspiration. There... Continue Reading →
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find.; knock, and will be opened. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him... Continue Reading →
It is very easy to love ideas. Daydreams about democracy. Fantasies of charity. Imaginations drifting over a world at peace. Meanwhile, we are tyrants at home and work. Our hands are closed fists toward the poor and needy. We are mad at our families, angry at our neighbors, at war with every coworker, and even... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite scenes in C.S. Lewis’s novel The Great Divorce involves quite the trio: a ghost, a lizard, and an angel. The little red Lizard sits upon the Ghost’s shoulders, perfectly positioned to whisper in his ear. The Ghost, who is living between heaven and hell, still has a chance to enter the... Continue Reading →
Where are the limits to our spending or our endless quest for earthly comfort? Do we even have limits? And yet… do we have a good balance here? Do we have the theological safeguards established against self-righteous legalism? Do we know that the demon likes both the ravenous glutton and the empty ascetic?
"What this little phrase tempts us to do is to ignore reality. Instead of dealing with the cards we have been dealt and the moves that have been made, they let us craft an image of a past that never was and of a present that never will be."