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Everybody likes simple answers to complex issues. If our highly polemicized society reinforces one thing over and over again, it is that the answers we favor are right, and those who disagree with us are at best misinformed or stupid, but at worst are evil or fanatical or fundamentalist. When we are feeling magnanimous we […]

Of all the commandments, I suspect that the third commandment may be the most challenging for Christians to understand and follow. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. What the heck does this mean for us as Christians in the 21st century? How do we make sense of the claims of groups such as […]

Socrates famously stated that the unexamined life is not worth living. Christians should take this maxim to heart, or at least draw comfort from it. The idea that Christians should be unthinking about their faith life is both inaccurate and misleading. While not everyone is called to grapple with Deep Questions About Life, most every […]

Simply Christian by N.T. Wright There are no shortage of books that attempt to make sense of Christianity to those who are either unfamiliar with it or perhaps estranged from it. Simply Christian is a credible entry into this ever-expanding catalog. Wright is an accomplished and controversial theologian. Lutherans are rightly wary of him for […]

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman If you’re only going to read one book this year, it should be Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. That being said, I hope you’ll read many more books than this. But if you have to make a choice based […]