At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Just as the figure of David lay hidden within the marble, discernible only to the eye of its creator, so the image of God (however tarnished by sin) lies within us, see and known by God Himself. Yet God loves us while we are still sinners. He doesn't have to wait until we stop sinning. Acceptance of His love is a major step along the road that leads to our liberation from the tyranny of sin.

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar ideas may have been under development around the same time in Prague and Haarlem. But in business, the key question is not about who else is in the race, it's about who gets there first. Johannes Gutenberg was the first to make the new technology work, ensuring his place in any history of the human race.

Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.