Why Christians Need Leisure
Dr. Paul Griffiths recently made the surprising claim that Christians don’t need leisure: The deleterious effects of narcissism are evident in the work of many, Christian and otherwise, who advocate leisure as good for us, appropriate to us, necessary for us, a blessing to us, an aid to contemplation, the foundation of culture, and so on. Christ...
Here Are Two Ways to Help the Christians in the Middle East
Before the many problems of the world, we can feel helpless and unable to respond to them. A particularly urgent crisis confronts us with the genocide of Christians in the Middle East. Although Secretary of State John Kerry officially recognized this persecution as genocide, the Obama administration did precious little to assist them and resettle t...
Stop Accusing the Saints of Legalism
If you have spent any significant amount of time among serious Christians, then you know that the word “legalism” is often regarded as a very dirty word in their vocabulary. Provided we understand the word properly, I am perfectly happy with this being the case. My fear, however, is that we do not understand it properly. Legalism, as I see ...