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In a time of obvious tragedy, the unbearable lightness of Christmas seems absurd to the watching world.

They know something about “Silent Night,” just as they know something about “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” What they don’t recognize is the cosmos-shifting mystery of Immanuel as God with Us.

How should Christians respond to our once and future president?

Zombies are everywhere it seems: in books, TV shows, movies. But why are we drawn to these gruesome figures?But why are we drawn to these gruesome figures?

Tim Tebow says he wants a wife with “a servant’s heart.” Does that make him a misogynist?

I think the reason this question resonates with so many parents is precisely because we adults can’t adequately explain the doctrine ourselves.

Great preachers are the ones who preach really bad sermons. The difference is that they preach really bad sermons when they’re young, and are sharpened for life by critique.

f you want to see the gospel of Christ that has energized this church for two thousand years, turn off the television.

As they moved toward the baptistry, candidates were expected to recite the Creed, not to show that they “meant business” but in order to show that they were now entrusted with a glorious mystery of the faith, expected to preserve this for the next generation. (Read more)

Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn’t seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. But this atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul mouth saw something of the fallen glory of the universe we followers of Jesus sometimes ignore.

Standing at Thomas Jefferson's grave reminds me how limited even his legacy can be, in the grand scheme of trillions of years of cosmic time.

Sometime before dawn on Sunday morning, a spike-torn hand twitched. A blood-crusted eyelid opened. The breath of God came blowing down into that cave, and a new creation flashed into reality...

Does God want you to be miserable? Long-term, no. (Read more)

Some Christians are wondering whether we ought to join a boycott of Starbucks for supporting same-sex marriage.

Why, when there is so much opportunity for debauchery out there in the world around us, do such people choose the church?

A concerned Christian wrote to me asking this: "If I have the Holy Spirit, why do I need this drug? Is it ethical for a Christian to take drugs like this?"

Too many of our “opponents” see us as morally-prissy Victorians who don’t want people doing “naughty” things in our presence. Let’s demolish that pretense.

When I insist that the rest of the congregation serve as back-up singers in my own little nostalgic hit parade of back-home Mississippi hymns, I am worshipping in the spirit all right. It’s just not the Holy Spirit. (Read more)

I have the worship music tastes of a seventy-five year-old woman. There I admitted it.

What we often forget is the second casualty of an abortion culture: the consciences of countless men and women.