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  • Knowing vs. showing your Christian faith

    Knowing vs. showing your Christian faith

    “Why are you a Christian?” So, in 25 words or less, how would you answer that question? Seriously, think about it for a minute or two.

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 75th anniversary (part 1)

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 75th anniversary (part 1)

    The UDHR articulates in its 30 articles every human being’s basic, fundamental rights and freedoms and affirms those rights as universal and unalienable. The UDHR directly led to the development of the concept of international human rights law.

  • Biblical principles for aging joyfully: Building a spiritual legacy (part 3)

    Biblical principles for aging joyfully: Building a spiritual legacy (part 3)

    C.S. Lewis wrote that as we think of the future, if we “aim at Heaven you will get Earth thrown in but aim at Earth and you get neither.”

  • The arrogant claims of Jesus

    The arrogant claims of Jesus

    Part of the problem is that Jesus’ claims and words aren’t fuzzy, accommodating, and safe, but are instead black and white and demand a response.

  • Cult of individualism and the loneliness epidemic

    Cult of individualism and the loneliness epidemic

    None of this, sadly, should surprise American Christians as we have lived and experienced the cult of individualism and its deleterious impact on our culture. Ever-widening concentric circles of destruction have been wrought by the siren song of narcissistic self-worship and unwavering devotion to that cult’s unholy trinity of “I, Myself, and Me.”

  • The crisis for Armenian Christians isn't stopping

    The crisis for Armenian Christians isn't stopping

    Preserving Arab Christian communities is not only a matter of cultural and religious heritage but is a testament to the importance of coexistence in a world that is increasingly less tolerant and diverse.

  • Biblical principles for joyful aging (part 2)

    Biblical principles for joyful aging (part 2)

    it’s important when we climb Mount Hoary to see the differences between mere happiness and true joy. Here are a few: Happiness is contingent, based on what is happening around us, but Joy is continual, based on what is happening within us.

  • Why do some Christians succeed in faith and others don't?

    Why do some Christians succeed in faith and others don't?

    Why is it that some Christians succeed while others who make that profession of faith miserably fail? Why is it that some seem to run the race of life and cross the finishing line with flying colors, and others just collapse in a heap? Because of choices.

  • The first question I ask skeptics about God

    The first question I ask skeptics about God

    When I’m requested to sit down with a skeptic to talk about God, the first question I ask them is this: Do you want Christianity to be true?

  • Reading Holy Scripture with a telescope and microscope

    Reading Holy Scripture with a telescope and microscope

    It has been my observation and experience that in the branches of Christendom in which I have interacted, the microscope has been far more often employed than the telescope. This has led to less understanding of the “Big Picture” than would be the case otherwise.

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