Relevance, we have surely mastered. What would happen if we sought a little irrelevance?

When Jesus prayed to the one who could save him from death, he did not get that salvation; he got instead the salvation of the world.

Elijah stands for what I want in a God: someone to offer an escape route around life's messiest problems.

"How could Satan possibly allow it?"

I experienced common grace, perhaps consciously for the first time, through music.

The Apollo missions, the greatest technological achievement of our species, gave the first real glimpse of our puny place in the universe.

Clearly, Jesus did not come to solve "the problem of pain" while on earth.

Artists like to have their work admired. That is why we worship.

Examples of Christians who dispense grace.

A better symbol of the Incarnation, I can hardly imagine.

We have no mandate to "Christianize" the United States.

No minister had prepared me for God's absence.

My top ten surprises.

Can we find a place for both shame and grace?