It doesn’t make sense!” said my pastor friend. We were lingering over lunch and discussing the Bible conference I was conducting in his church. I’d just commented that the church was having a strong ...

What do we mean when we talk about “good preaching”? Two kinds of preaching predominate the American evangelical landscape today: the first we’ll call “moral preaching,” and the second we’ll call ...

On the Monday after preaching, as I think about what all of those words are doing now that they’re out in the world, my mind wanders to a scene from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Lila. The title ...