Exegesis, Love, and Suffering
Addresses the 2024 Gutenberg graduating class.
Addresses the 2024 Gutenberg graduating class.
Explores the American value of independence of mind.
Examines three ways that pursuing truth is an ally to faith.
Addresses Gutenberg's 2023 graduating class and encourages them to continue the process of "becoming."
Examines the biblical view of the meaning of suffering.
Discusses the futility of this life and where those of faith find hope.
Explains how Christian faith makes a meaningful life possible.
Argues that our culture over emphasizes individual freedom and self-expression.
Gives council on how to function when turmoil and disorder prevail.
Extols the virtue of temperance in a culture obsessed with bodily appetites.
Makes the case that wise living is a skill acquired much like other skills.
Uses the Roman Stoics and the early Christians to shed light on the age-old conflict between intellect versus emotion.
Presents four pictures that help explain what it means to be a Christian believer.
Addresses the question of how we keep from being "swept along" in a society that has turned its back on what is good.
Describes behaviors that indicate a person's religious (rather than intellectual) commitment to beliefs.
Encourages Gutenberg graduates to commit themselves to fighting what is false.
Makes the case that wise living is a skill acquired much like other skills.
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.
Responds to Jack Crabtree's paper, "How to Follow Jesus When You Cannot Kill the Beast" (Summer Institute 2013), by analyzing the meaning of "Leftism."
Responds to Jack Crabtree's paper, "How to Follow Jesus When You Cannot Kill the Beast" (Summer Institute 2013), by looking at factors that affect how people commit to their beliefs.