3 Ways to Show Pastoral Care for God's Creatures Great and Small
Those of you who've read my book, Walking Through Twilight, know that my dog Sonny is mentioned numerous times. He was a gift from God for my first wife Becky and myself, as we suffered together throu...
26 Feb 202420min
Freud’s Last Session: His Debate with C.S. Lewis & What Each Believed about Religion and Evil
Few people have shaped the twentieth century’s understanding of Christianity more than its opponent, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), and its advocate C. S. Lewis (1898-1964). Lewis, an adult convert from a...
19 Feb 202411min
A Critique of Educational Technologies in the Classroom
Too many educational innovations are, ironically, taking teachers out of their own classrooms. The age-old dynamic of a teacher instructing students in a dedicated setting (or often peripatetically, a...
12 Feb 202417min
Lessons from Churches in My Christian Life
I found my church home in Evangelical Anglicanism in early 2007. My denomination is The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). It is not part of the Episcopalian denomination. But as I reflect on my...
5 Feb 202419min
How the Holy Spirit Grounds the Knowledge of God Through Liturgy
God’s creatures ought to worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:23) through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit so that the nations may be glad and sing for joy. This is because God rules the peopl...
29 Jan 202431min
Liturgy for the Low Church: Introducing Liturgical Elements in Non-Liturgical Churches
I came to love liturgy late, but I am not going to leave it. This is because God has worked these patterns of ritual meaning deep into my system. Liturgy is simply too good not to share with the wider...
22 Jan 202415min
Advice to a Christian Apologist: How to Be Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves
Jesus exhorted us to love God with all our minds (Matthew 22:37-39). The project of explaining, commending, and defending the Christian worldview is not limited to experts. Rather, it is the call of e...
15 Jan 202415min
Why Spiritual Opposition Happens (And 6 Key Principles for Ministry Effectiveness)
Discouragement, the Demonic, and Victory in Christian Ministry (Acts 13:1-12) Over many years of teaching and writing, I have noted a pattern with many of my students and one that I have experienced i...
8 Jan 202417min
