Mere Orthodoxy

One of the most astonishing descriptions of pastoral ministry in Holy Scripture focuses upon the sense of smell:

I sometimes think about what my childhood and teenage years would have been like if I had the same kind of technology available to me that my preteen children now have available to them. I doubt it would have gone well. I learned from an early age the kind of permissions I could get by labeling myself “introverted.” Even without broadband internet, I played the bookish loner....

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus talks often about the heart. He warns against being clean on the outside, while harboring inward sin. It’s fitting for Christians to share this concern. However, at times our well-intentioned focus on “the heart” has heralded a kind of dualism, causing us to separate our spiritual and physical selves in a way God never intended.

Mere Orthod...

In her famous essay "The Lost Tools of Learning," the magnificent Dorothy L. Sayers mourned the misunderstandings that arise because of conversationalists’ failures of understanding language. How can it be that people could hear something and misunderstand it so profoundly as to be unable to have a coherent conversation about the topic altogether? For Sayers, this problem cam...

Trevin Wax has spent his career thinking about how to encourage believers to delight in both reading the Bible and in engaging in daily prayer. As it happens, both are areas in which many believers regularly say they do need more encouragement. Even some believers who read the Bible daily struggle with prayer—and some who love prayer find it difficult to really love some ...