The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

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

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.

For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

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

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.