In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.

In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring... He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.