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Category Archives: Faith

A New Starting Point for Thought

October 26, 2011

What follows is an excerpt from my opening convocation speech this fall at Seattle Pacific University called The Upside-Down University. I am talking here about the deeper contributions the Christian university can make for our time of disintegrating culture.

On Prayer and the Nation

August 29, 2011

A couple of weekends ago, in Houston, Texas, a group of organizers staged a huge rally to pray for our nation. Governor Rick Perry of Texas, one of the organizers of the rally, called out the reasons, as he sees it, for prayer at this time.

The Problem of Pain and God’s Good Assurance

June 27, 2011

“It is what it is” — I have so often found myself using this phrase. We all use it from time to time. I suppose it is something like saying “roll with the punches,” or perhaps “let the chips fall,” or “stuff happens.”

Putting Out Into the Deep

November 29, 2010

On the plane late last night … I became intensely absorbed in George Weigel’s brand-new book The End and the Beginning. … And somehow my reflections on what is happening in our nation’s capital seemed to come together with new thoughts about the life and leadership and teaching of Pope John Paul II.