Jesus Christ

Can We Make the World a Better Place?

Ephraim Radner calls our attention to essential truths that are almost never spoken in our over-heated political climate. Continue Reading »

26 Apr 2024

Silencing the Word

by Hans Boersma

The Lord God wants to change us from talkers into listeners, transfigure us from snobs to slaves. Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2023

Come, Ye Thankful People

by Hans Boersma

How can we trust that, despite all we go through, God hears us when we pray, “Grant, O harvest Lord, that we / Wholesome grain and pure may be”? Continue Reading »

29 Nov 2022

The Dreams of Sholem Asch

by David Randall

Sholem Asch's 1939 novel The Nazarene deserves new readers. Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2022

A Detective's Case for Christ

by Mark Bauerlein

J. Warner Wallace joins the podcast to discuss his book, Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible. Continue Reading »

31 Jan 2022

Three Epigrams from Richard Crashaw, Epigrammata Sacra

by John Talbot

Phariseus et publicanus. Luc xviii. 14–19 En duo templum adeunt, diversis mentibus ambo. Ille procul trepido lumnie signat humum.It gravis hic, et in alta ferox petetralia tendit. Plus habet . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Briefly Noted

by Various

In September 1944, Helmuth von Moltke sat in Berlin’s Tegel prison, awaiting execution. The Nazis had arrested him for organizing the Kreisau Circle, a resistance group formed to plan a more democratic future Germany. Helmuth’s death drew near, yet, as his wife Freya wrote to him, “The best . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Briefly Noted

by Nathaniel Peters

The great liberal Protestant theologian Adolf von Harnack argued that the simple, wholly ethical message of Christ was obscured over time by being mixed with Greek ideas. This corruption, he said, culminated in the Council of Chalcedon’s definition of Christ as one person with two natures, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2019