The Samaritan Was Busy
Forty seminarians, a man groaning in a doorway, and a talk on the Good Samaritan to give across campus. The experiment is usually told as a rebuke to the busy. Read closely, the parable…
Sundays
The Front Pew
The front pew has the best view of the altar and the worst view of yourself. Every Sunday I take a question of faith, conscience or the human condition and give it the full light of day: Scripture beside the novelists, the philosophers and the behavioural economists, and now and then beside the Quran and the Bhagavad Gita. Some Sundays I write from inside the faith, some from Thomas’s seat, and some from the back of the church, where the doubts sit. When Paul quoted pagan poets to the philosophers of Athens, some laughed and others asked to hear him again (Acts 17). I’ll settle for either. Readers of any faith, or none, are welcome to argue.
Why We Elect the Reluctant
Plato thought only the unwilling should rule. Scripture is crowded with leaders who ran from the job. On the feast of Christ the King, a closer look at the king who fled a crown.