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Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly... →
The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but... →
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We... →
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who... →
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and... →
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their... →
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say... →