The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.

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

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.