Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.