On Being “Creepy”
In a recent column published in the magazine The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier criticized President Obama for the kind of language the president uses when he discusses Islam. Wieseltier makes no secret of his own commitment to a secularist outlook when he refers to “Obama’s creepy habit of addressing Muslims in religious terms.” What Mr. […]
Singing the Good News: At Fuller Seminary and on “American Idol”
Last Wednesday evening (April 9), some 150 people gathered in Fuller Seminary’s Travis Auditorium to sing old-time hymns. Young and old alike...
Seeds of Rebellion
I pulled an old novel off my shelf this morning, paging through it for nostalgic purposes. In my college days I discovered...
On Humility
Lisa Miller wrote a nice Newsweek column recently on the subject of humility—go here to read it.
She noted the frequency...
How to Bring Joy to Harry & David
There is trouble at Harry & David’s. The Oregon company, which began by selling pears and now does a major mail-order business with its...
“Never Mind!”
I have not watched “Saturday Night Live” in several years–I don’t stay up as late as I did in my younger years!–but...
Cheer and Gloom
I have often puzzled about a comment made by Dr. Samuel Johnson, as reported by his biographer James Boswell. He had often...
About Being a “Movement”
A group of us from several seminaries were meeting together, and someone made a comparison between Fuller Seminary and another theological school....
Reflecting on the Pope’s Visit
I have been invited by The New York Times to write for their blog about the Pope’s visit to the United States....
The Difficulty of Self-Knowledge
Here is a passage that I often return to, from the inaugural address of one of my presidential predecessors, Edward John Carnell:
Whoever meditates on...
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