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Christianity Without a Lord

Earlier this year, I attended a large Christian event that left me strangely unsettled. Jesus was thanked. God was mentioned. There were smiles, applause, emotional speeches, and endless talk about impact. But something felt profoundly absent. Holiness was barely spoken of. Sin was almost entirely missing. Christ’s atoning sacrifice felt assumed rather than treasured. There was little reverence, little weight, little call toward repentance, obedience, sanctification, or the f

The Failure of Progress: Why We Can't Get it Right

Pandora’s Box, Progress, and the Problem We Can’t Fix I was recently thinking about the old myth of Pandora’s box. For the uninitiated, it is a Greek tale that sought an answer to the problem of suffering in the world. It paints a picture of the first woman, Pandora, a creation of Zeus, sent as punishment for Prometheus’s theft of fire. Each of the gods gave her gifts before sending her to earth. Zeus gave her a jar—though we have come to call it a box—and commanded her not

Beauty, Culture, and Catechesis: When Entertainment Becomes Liturgy

No Such Thing as Neutral Entertainment I had a conversation with a friend recently about this year’s halftime performance—how creative it was, how beautiful the presentation looked, and how refreshing it felt to see a public message of love over hate. I understood what he meant. In a culture that feels increasingly fractured, it’s easy to crave anything that sounds like unity. But I couldn’t help but think that a discussion about this particular event pointed to something muc