“An alert community will always subject its metaphors, especially its favorite metaphors, to critical analysis.” -–Charles Scriven1
“There is no...
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Forty years ago this fall, I rolled into Walla Walla as a new faculty member. That’s a marker worth celebrating. The only people I really knew then...
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If you live in the United States in 2016, you can hardly take a trip to the water cooler without being asked, "Who are you going to vote for?" Even...
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In the final two years of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote several letters from Tegel prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge in which he spoke of...
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Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price...
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We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be...
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The village atheist was never a threat to people of faith. He—and it was always a he—never amounted to being more than a gadfly. That was the case...
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If I can target the problem, I can turn chaos into order.
If I can find the contaminating element, I can get rid of it.
If I can discover who is...
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I woke up at 5:30 that morning of my first day in India. I had a solid 15 hours of jet-lagged sleep and was ready for this new day. My hosts Bruce...
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The following had its origins in a homily I offered at the 8:30 a.m. Liturgical Service at La Sierra University Church in June. One of the Scripture...
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