The heart of love is treating all persons equally, regardless of their proximity to us in life. When we care about other people’s children and not just our own, other people’s life chances, and not just our own people, then we have moved in the direction of the love...
The lack of substance in most popular Christian books is producing anemic disciples… Millions of contemporary Christians read mainly cotton candy. It may be Christian cotton candy, but it’s still cotton candy. And even the substance that is offered generally lacks...
Imago dei, the image of God… We resemble God in our capacity to love, to reason, to feel, to relate to other creatures, to imagine, to plan, to create, to contemplate, and in many other ways. We are an image of God. A scratched-up one, badly damaged by sin, but the...