John Wesley’s marriage shows us how not to be married.  By that I mean that Wesley made mistakes that helped make his marriage miserable.  These mistakes are catalogued in Doreen Moore’s  Good Christians Good Husbands? (more…) Read more

Today is Ash Wednesday, when Christians around the world have ashes put on their foreheads to represent mourning and repentance.  This is the first day of Lent, when we follow in the footsteps of Jesus as he prepared for his public ministry by spending forty days in the desert wrestling with Satan. It is a time for us to clean house spiritually, to examine our lives for sin, repent, and draw closer to God.   (more…) Read more

I am very grateful to my friend and fellow Anglican Scot McKnight (who, BTW, is an important NT scholar) for featuring Famous Stutterers on his blog today. Here is some of what he wrote: If you stutter, this book is for you; if you know folks who stutter, this book is for you; if you minister in a church, this book is for you. I see this book the way I see Adam McHugh’s book on introversion. The book will awaken you... Read more

I hope to see some of you this weekend when I give a series of lectures in Roanoke, Va, at Grace Church and St. John Lutheran church.  The series is entitled, “Divine Signs: God’s Fingerprints in All of Reality.”  Here is the schedule: (more…) Read more

The Psalmist wrote that the righteous “still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green” (Ps 92.12, 14). I don’t know if the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was righteous (his life included, according to the Wall Street Journal, “a scandal-making affair, a murdered lover . . . three marriages and two divorces”), but he was an extraordinary illustration of bearing fruit in old age.  (more…) Read more

There are more truths per column inch in this article about Israel than you will find just about anywhere. The author is a professor at the University of Paris. Here are a few examples: Gaza was occupied by Egypt for 19 years until 1967, and the West Bank was occupied by Jordan until 1967. Both occupations were unsanctioned by international law. In 1977, Zuheir Mohsen, a PLO leader, said bluntly that the Palestinian people were invented for political purposes. When... Read more

  We often hear that climate scientists are all agreed that we are facing a crisis, and that government action on CO2 emissions is desperately needed to save the planet. Here is more evidence (there has already been more than plenty) that not all climate scientists are agreed. (more…) Read more

Every believer is beset by doubts from time to time.  There is plenty of evidence for this in the lives of the great saints and theologians. I have found that the best remedy for doubt is reading the gospels.  Seeing their realism and observing the stunning miracles and crystalline words of Jesus strengthen my faith repeatedly. (more…) Read more