Okay. So it is a bit on the cheesy side (did he just say 'cheesy'?), and you've heard things like it before (sure, but cheese....?), but I want to press the illustration almost to absurdity. Just to make a point. I know, it's still cheese, but even cheese has a point – especially if it's cut in a wedge. We celebrated the Feast of Epiphany a few weeks ago. Sometimes there is a “festival of lights” at the Feast that reminds us that Christ is the light of the world. Not just the light, life and...

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell Neil Postman published a book in 1985 called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In the preface, Postman is comparing two darkly prophetic books: 1984 by George Orwell (1949), and Brave New World (1932), by Aldous Huxley. Since the year 1984 had passed, Postman noted that many Americans were congratulating themselves that a Big Brother state hadn't been established in our land. We hadn't gone the way of the Socialists or the Communists or the Fascists. Our democracy...

Faith. What is it? I’ve been walking with Jesus for 35 years now (sometimes not so well) and I am still struggling to find better language to speak of this thing called the Christian life. Faith is certainly belief. It is trust. But it must be more. And it isn’t just “belief in” – read “intellectual assent to” – a set of theological statements written in a creed somewhere. That’s not personal, and one of the distinguishing characteristics of Christian life is the ability to have a...