What are the most important words you have ever heard? When I think back over my life, I remember words such as...
Paul observed surroundings, listened, and tailored his message to their language. What he did not do is water down the gospel message. In his marketplace ministry, Paul stuck to the simple truth of...
Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! ...
A friend of mine was dissatisfied with his job and the company he worked for. He felt mistreated, underused . . . and his anger simmered. But that was years ago. Today my...
Some days the glass is empty. Some days the glass gets knocked over and spills onto your lap, on your best pair of pants, when you can’t get home to change. Life is...
A month and a half ago, the season of Lent began on Ash Wednesday. Then, we were reminded, in the words of...
As I write this reflection, I’m sitting by my Christmas tree, with instrumental carols playing softly in the background.
This article, An Artist in the Dark, originally appeared in Comment magazine, the opinion journal of CARDUS: www.cardus.ca/comment. Our thanks for this...
If you are reading this, you are not dead. You have not experienced firsthand the process of dying. If you have witnessed death, you have seen it—no matter how close to it you...
Recently, I was catching up with an old friend. We had attended the same church through high school. "I'm an atheist now,"...
Good Friday has come. We have remembered the darkest hour of our faith, but we know the end of the story. Tomorrow...
Handel did not write the Messiah as a piece of Christmas music. In fact, the first performance of the Messiah occurred, not...
Jesus’ dark hours remind us there are some roads you must walk alone. ...
Since I resigned my position as chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers only months before the company went bankrupt, I have had ample time to reflect on the decisions I made in balancing...
The 21st century seems a long way from the world of sacrifice. For example, I don’t hesitate to spend two dollars on a cup of coffee that I could make myself with a...
The fall of great companies often comes as a surprise to shareholders and the public. But this writer has gone back to...
I don’t typically think of this passage when I think about Easter. Instead, when I read John’s words, I imagine the two-inch Fontanini baby Jesus swaddled in white cloth, lying in a straw-stuffed.....
The list of small group classes offered by my church during the Lenten season included a study on the discipline of fasting...
Golfer Y. E. Yang has scored two firsts. He was first to defeat Tiger Woods in a major golf tournament when Tiger...
I often equate listening to God with silence. But that’s not an easy task. At my home, the quiet is routinely pierced by the dog next door, the ever-present highway noise that rumbles...
