The message of the Christian faith is a message of new life. On offer are many theories of how we experience new life. Do we reinvent ourselves and make our own meaning? Do we die and live again numerous times until our soul is mature enough to join...

This week we come to the idea of unrighteousness. Humanity both needs God's judgment, and yet no one would be vindicated by God's judgment. We need righteousness, but in asking for righteousness we may be asking to be judged unrighteous in...

When we consider it as a physical phenomenon, death is the end of respiration. Yet our imagination is limited when this is the only lens through which we see death. Understood rather as a spiritual phenomenon, death is separation from the life of God...

This week we begin to explore the problem of what went wrong in the world. From the biblical perspective, what went wrong began when right worship was redirected from God to created things. Idolatry is that movement of trust from God to created...

What sets humans apart? What makes a person so uniquely valuable? The answer on offer is often that we are not uniquely valuable, or if we are it is only because we are the creatures who made up fictions powerful enough to coordinate huge groups of...

What is life? In recent years, many have claimed that the answer to that age-old question has been found. Ask any biochemist and they will tell you that the answer boils down to an awkward acronym—CHNOPS: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen...

Every story takes place somewhere. Or, to put it another way, no story takes place nowhere, because every story has a setting. The story of Scripture is no exception. Part of what it means to have a converted imagination is that we imagine ourselves...

Everyone loves a good story. Stories are so much a part of life that we take them for granted. In fact, there is hardly a moment in a day that we aren't telling a story, if not to someone else, then to ourselves. One could almost say that our...

In this last installment of our series in Proverbs, we see the overarching principle that guides life in the home. One author summarizes it with the phrase "My Life for Yours." Each member of the household is not looking to the household...