Our “estate planning” would do well to include equipping ourselves with songs that have nurtured the Church for decades and centuries.
Articles published in Essays
Articles, interviews and opinion pieces that reflect critically on the world.
Church Music in the Current Technological Age
As hymn books dissolve into digital catalogs and organs morph into macbooks, what do we make of the source of our songs? Who decides what gets written and what gets played (are the worship wars really over)?
Science for All Christians
How do we avoid the temptation to pit science against faith and, in so doing, risk diminishing faith to nothing more than a series of propositions and claims and distorting science into an endeavor to prove or disprove the existence of God?
Providential Creation and a Gracious Science
The tension between Scripture’s description of the beginning of creation and the description provided by contemporary science can be particularly troublesome, but it does not have to be.
Against Common Sense
Even where scientific conclusions appear to contradict common sense (“something abstruse”) we may nevertheless recognize their validity. Moreover, we recognize that these descriptions are not provided as frivolous over-complications of reality, but as the result of close and careful study of that reality’s witness.
The Fruitless Search for the Theory of Everything
While complete in one perspective, no theory of everything will prove or explain all of life's questions and experiences.