Stu Kerns Honouring J.I. Packer

Pastor Stu Kerns was my pastoral mentor in Nebraska where our three kids were born and where Tanya and I lived for fifteen remarkable years. This is a great tribute because Stu also gives some quick highlights of where to get started if you have never read Packer and his tremendous works.  

NT Wright on Coronavirus, Suffering & Early Church

I found this reflection by NT Wright to be so helpful regarding the role of lament and letting ourselves be filled with the joy of the Lord during these most difficult times. Wright also reflects on the kind of response God's people ought to have to the swirling questions around the "why's" of the pandemic.

Hope for US Evangelicals Still?

This is one of the best interviews of a Christian I've heard on mainstream media (maybe the best one), since Trump was voted into office nearly four years ago. Rev. Rob Schenck speaks with clarity regarding what is wrong with the "white evangelical" alliance with Trump's administration. 

Back in February of 2016, nine months before Trump would be elected to office, I wrote here as to why I was deflated, but not entirely surprised in light of the history of civic idolatry among US Christians, at the growing support among US Christians for Donald Trump.

In this very good interview by Michel Martin of NPR, Christiane Amanpour "sets the table," and Rob Schenck speaks with a kind of clarity that gives me hope that the evangelical church in the US can still rise from the ashes of its own ruins.