Social Media, Lust, and the War for Purity
The Roof in Your Pocket Late One Afternoon Long before anyone carried a screen, the eye was already leading the…
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What Sits Beneath the Invitation: Understanding Mormonism
The Knock at the Door Most people meet Mormonism on a front porch or in a short ad between television…
One God, Another Christ: Understanding Islam Clearly
Most Christians in the West form their picture of Islam from the evening news, and it tends to be a…
Understanding Buddhism: Suffering Without a Savior
The Awakened One and the Risen One Most Christians meet Buddhism in pieces long before they meet it whole. A…
Why Would Sex Be Wrong If We Love Each Other?
Two people fall in love, and nothing about how they’ve gone about it looks reckless. Neither is chasing someone else,…
What Is Salvation?
Most people who ask about salvation aren’t really asking for a definition. They’re asking whether there’s a way out of…
If God Loves Me, How Could He Send My Mother to Hell?
“Wouldn’t He Want Me to Be Happy?” Grief doesn’t wait for theology to catch up. It arrives in the middle…
Is God Punishing Me? What Suffering Really Means
The call comes at the worst possible hour, or the diagnosis lands on an ordinary Tuesday, or the marriage that…
Genesis: Everything Breaks, and God Promises
A World Spoken Into Order God speaks, and something exists that didn’t exist a moment before. Light separates from dark,…
Catholicism and the Gospel: Shared Language, Different Foundations
What Catholicism Claims to Be Roman Catholicism presents itself as the historic church founded by Jesus Christ, preserved through apostolic…