Essay
From Him, Through Him, To Him: Why We Worship a God Who Needs Nothing
Worship does not make God glorious but confesses what is already true by those dependent on him. Worship belongs to the order of truth and not the economy of exchange.
God’s Left Hand
Early voting has already begun here in Texas, where I live. On November 3, Americans will return to the ballot box for the midterm elections. For some of us, this is an energizing time. We love doing our part to participate in our democracy and choose our leaders.
The Alternate Enchantment of the Reformation
Since the 2007 release of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, the Christian intellectual sphere has reverberated with talk of disenchantment, a historical process that helped create the modern world. According to Taylor, the old enchanted realm was “the world of spirits, demons, moral forces
How Should Believers Respond to Claims About ‘AI Welfare’?
In a humorous moment in the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, looks into the camera and remarks, “You may ask, how did this tradition get started? I’ll tell you—I don’t know! But it’s a tradition.” This sets the scene for the movie’s story of Tevye adapting to the changing world around him […]
The God Who Arrives Unbidden
In the spring of 1768, Voltaire famously remarked in his work the Épître à l’Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him (Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer). Among those so inclined, this line is often quoted as one of the first modern confessions of atheism.
