The higher way

The God of the Old Testament is dark and vengeful, isn’t he? The giver of the law, full of judgment and doom, ready to pounce on our every failing? The irony of God’s critics is they love to judge him—but in this, human beings and their Maker are poles apart. You see...

Why are we so moved by sacrifice?

A few years ago my wife Katherine and I were on the island of Crete. After catching a train on a hot day we wandered hesitantly through a strange neighbourhood, and finally found what we were looking for: a cemetery for the Allied soldiers who fought in World War...

Thank God for the skeptics

I’m deeply grateful for skeptics. I’m grateful because I’m one of them. Not easily persuaded of the incredible. Wary of the too-good-to-be-true. I’m grateful because when a fellow skeptic is finally convinced that something remarkable really is true, it’s much...