Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.