“Patience comes of sovereign prudence, impatience of unchecked folly.” — Proverbs 14:29 During Lent I recounted two life-changing episodes I experienced on the same stretch of road, 30 years apart. (I’ll link to the stories below if you are interested…

What if you had absolute knowledge God existed? What if you had absolute knowledge God did not exist? These unanswerable questions make me think of Pascal’s Wager, a famous philosophical argument for living as if God existed. Pascal reasoned that…

The last lesson Jesus taught His disciples before His Passion was to show them — and all of us — that He came to serve, not to be served, and that we must do likewise. There is no ambiguity, no…

Now that Lent is nearly at an end, I’m figuring something out that should have been obvious. Giving up something bad for Lent is no good. You have to give up something bad and replace it with something good. If…

“Let the whole earth keep holiday in God’s honor; pay to the Lord the homage of your rejoicing, appear in his presence with glad hearts. Learn that it is the Lord, no other, who is God; his we are, he…