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December 2017

December 16, 2017

How Work Can Make a Difference in Your Faith: A Striking Example

God is so good to give us our daily work as opportunities to form us...

December 14, 2017

Where is God When I Hate My Job?

Have you ever hated your job? Even if you have a great job, one you...

December 12, 2017

Is It Possible to Experience God’s Peace When Your Work Is Making You Crazy?

For me,” [Lawrence] said, “the time of work does not differ from the time of...

December 10, 2017

Experiencing the Presence of God in Your Work

We’d expect that some workers in some jobs experience God’s presence on a regular basis....

December 06, 2017

Can Your Work Make a Difference in Your Faith?

Can your work make a difference in your faith? Could what you do every day,...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

Sharing Faith Online?

Something to chew on: only one in five Americans share their faith online, says the...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Internet Writers: Beware

I publish almost exclusively on the Internet, and I've grown to like it: it's easier...

June 2014

June 09, 2014

The Exclusion of “Belle”

Maybe you saw the new costume drama Belle, which looks at issues of race and class...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

A Doubter in the Holy Land

In The New York Times, the writer and literary critic Maud Newton - who was raised...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

New C.S. Lewis Essay

The fiftieth anniversary of C.S. Lewis's death was last week, and Cambridge University Press published...

November 22, 2013

John Tavener and Rest

The composer John Tavener died last weekend - a man whose conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy...

August 2012

August 06, 2012

Why Business Matters to God

[F]or Christians interested in advancing God's agenda of peace, justice and reconciliation, a focus on...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Is There a Necessary Contradition Between Sports and Faith?

Is there a necessary and unavoidable contradiction between sports and faith? David Brooks, one of...

January 2012

January 18, 2012

Fascinating Piece on “Business in the Way of Jesus”

I just finished a fascinating article on "Business in the Way of Jesus." It was...

January 17, 2012

When Tim Tebow Loses, Does God Lose Too? On the Contrary!

This is the question posed by religion writer Tom Krattenmaker in his USA Today op-ed,...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

Faith, Politics, and Mini Cupcakes

What do faith, politics, and mini cupcakes have in common? Not much, except that they...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

You Don’t Need More Faith

You Don’t Need More Faith A few days ago, this post was my Daily Reflection,...

May 2011

May 18, 2011

“There Is No Heaven” – What the Faith of Stephen Hawking Misses

In yesterday's post, I began to consider the "faith" of Stephen Hawking. He expressed this...

May 17, 2011

“There Is No Heaven” – The Faith of Stephen Hawking

I am taking a slight detour from my series on the message of Jesus because...