Monthly Archives: March 2014

I see no clear political advantage to reaching out to these providers and women, but there is great spiritual advantage to sparking even the smallest light.

‘Parenthood’ is mercilessly exact in its rendering of the wreckage that occurs when families fail to love each other well.

Academic freedom — the freedom to propose, pursue, and research dangerous ideas — is not something to be feared.

“How can the Church it speak in a world trained to hear a stutter instead of a clear word?”

“The evangelical church must move from the image of expulsion from the Garden to the victory at the Cross, where our shame went to die.”

A fuller understanding of Brown’s use of Foss’s work would require first-hand engagement with the painting and training in art history. To do so, however, would require recognizing and accepting our current limitations.

“What is this mystical drink, this gift of God to the people of God?”

“Our expectations are constantly at war with our hopes.”

When my husband chafes at the line “These things are fun, and fun is good” in Dr. Seuss’ One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, I get it—because neither one of us sees fun as something we ought to be striving for.

The story ‘The Twible’ tells is sarcastic and angry and sometimes really ugly—and, in the end, beautiful.

I need encouragement, and I definitely need the gospel, but man, the honesty of the Truckers is refreshing.

If there’s something Banished has to offer us, then, it is a picture of the contented life.