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On Providence & Practical Deism

Even Christians sometimes slip into a kind of practical deism. Do we believe that God is at work and present even in the midst of suffering?

When the Waters Rise Again: Advent Hope & the Painful Waiting of Sri Lanka

A cyclone has left death and destruction in its wake in Sri Lanka. The acute pain highlights the Advent ache for God.

On Being a Police Chaplain: Hope in the Darkness

A police chaplain stands amid death as one convinced of life, in the midst of senselessness as one convinced of a divine order.

Augustine’s Conflicted Tears: Grief & Hope in Confessions and Enchiridion

Augustine's Confessions and Enchiridion can help us articulate a Christian understanding of grief and hope.

Turning Loss into a Blessing

A girl begins to understand that her “good for nothing” puddle might just be good for something after all.

Avada Kedavra

The Harry Potter book series is a profound study on the reality of death and a call to renew a Christian view of it.

Hope Is a Child

We're continuing our Natality series. Nestorius, David Ney writes, was the heresiarch of anti-natalism. He refused to accept a little child as his God. Christ himself was born as a consequence of God’s decision to make Mary fruitful and to make many other ancestors fruitful, including Eve, whom he married to Adam. It is a risk for men and women to be so open.

Gratitude on Election Day

In the past two-plus years, it’s been my privilege to make multiple visits to over a dozen countries (predominantly in Africa). Most often in...

The Wake of Injustice

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., compressing an observation by...

Children, Hope, and Our Declining Churches

This review discusses suicide. P.D. James’s dystopian novel, The Children of Men, describes an unnerving world in which humanity suddenly and collectively loses the ability...

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