Christ the Bonny Outlaw

On my honeymoon, almost 15 years ago now, I picked up a used copy of Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. I tried to read it then and couldn’t make heads or tails of it. When my editor at IVP told me it was one of his favorite books ever, I tried again and still...

Holy Week 2: Good Friday

It is Holy Week. It is Good Friday. That adjective, holy? That word, good? They’re not referring to me. I have been an unholy wretch this week. The house is a mess and I want it cleaned up. So I yell at my kids for the love of everything holy why can’t you...

Still To Become

The darkness is still with us, O Lord….You are still obscured by the veils of this world’s history, you are still destined not to be acknowledged in the scandal of your death on the cross… But I, O hidden Lord of all things, boldly affirm my faith in...