Lady Temperance
Extols the virtue of temperance in a culture obsessed with bodily appetites.
Which Translation Is Best?
Discusses the value of the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures) in relation to the Masoretic text (Hebrew).
A Memorial Address
Reflects on the human condition confronted with the reality of death.
Infinite Passion
Addresses Gutenberg graduates concerning the defining passion of one's life.
Communion Metaphor
Unpacks the metaphor of "food and drink" in communion.
The Greatest Sign
Discusses what Jesus considered the greatest sign of his messiahship.
Valuing Crumbs
Comments on the relationship between Jews and Gentiles by telling the story of a gentile woman who asks Jesus to heal her daughter.
The Skill of Wisdom
Makes the case that wise living is a skill acquired much like other skills.
How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall: A Skill-Based Life
Makes the case that wise living is a skill acquired much like other skills.
Holding the Line Against Evil
Responds to Jack Crabtree's paper, "How to Follow Jesus When You Cannot Kill the Beast" (Summer Institute 2013), by addressing the question of how we keep from being "swept along" in a society that has turned its back on what is good.
As If You Yourselves Were Suffering
Uses the Roman Stoics and the early Christians to shed light on the age-old conflict between intellect versus emotion.
Four Analogies
Presents four pictures that help explain what it means to be a Christian believer.
A Light Shining in the Darkness
Argues that we can only understand the true joy of Christmas by understanding the fact of death.
Is It Time To Redefine Evil?
Interacts with Andrew Delbanco's book, "The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil."
The Play Is Not the Thing: To Understand the Era, Watch What Surrounds the Stage
Argues that the spaces surrounding theatre stages reveal cultural beliefs and asks what modern theatre spaces say about our culture.
Holding the Line
Addresses the question of how we keep from being "swept along" in a society that has turned its back on what is good.
The Two Most Important Things I Have Learned
Explores how the author's thinking and understanding has changed over the course of twenty years as a tutor at Gutenberg College—specifically, how he understands the Bible and Gutenberg’s role, how his perspective on the nature of Christianity and its origins has changed, and what he has learned about the basis for hope.
An Algebra Apology: Or what has algebra got to do with anything anyway?
Explains why studying Algebra remains an important thing to do.
Four Dangerous Ideas
Discusses social and cultural beliefs that have become so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we cannot see them for what they are.
An Easter Exhortation
Encourages believers to persevere in their faith in the light of Jesus' resurrection.