Nietzsche once suggested Christianity is vulnerable to appropriation by lofty humanitarian aspirations. Are we falling into that tendency unawares?
Five books that contain sentences, paragraphs, and pages full of unique ideas that move our minds, touch our hearts, and fill our souls with light.
We have reached a point where we expect violent responses any time we speek out on a controversial subject. But wouldn't we do better if we worked together?
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COVERING THE COVERAGE
Last fall, I sat down with Steven T. Collis, a research fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, to speak about his book on religious freedom cases, Deep Conviction. We spoke about Espinoza v. Montana scheduled for oral arguments this week. In...
On Monday, The Washington Post published an article with a headline that misrepresented leaders of my faith. The headline read "Mormon Church misled members on 100 billion fund.” That's not the argument the article makes, however. The article itself contains a...
Painful and terrible things happen every day in our communities and nation. And when we check out the news, we’ve all become accustomed to exploring their circumstances in often lurid detail. Compared to the appropriate sorrow we might feel when another instance of...
The well-being of youth and children is — and should be — common ground on which everyone can stand. We all want children to thrive and find joy. That’s easy to forget in an environment of “us-versus-them” rhetoric where so much important nuance is lost. This is...
A troubling thing has happened in America, a land built on the idea that a citizenry could self-govern together despite their differences. Several years ago, people took it as a laugh line to see at Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity a placard that read, “I...
“To be in the world but not of it” is a familiar characterization of the challenge of the Christian life. Though not exactly scriptural, the formula captures something of the spirit of John 17:15-18: I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that...
Who is worthy of being called a “saint”? My ears perked up recently when, halfway through the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Lloyd Vogel (an investigative journalist profiling Fred Rogers) asks Fred’s wife, Joanne, “So, how does it feel to be married to a...
