Bold, boisterous, aggressive, outsized-personality types dominate our business landscape, our political stage, our sports pages, even our religious attention. Flamboyant visionaries often set the agenda in their respective fields. Yet Isaac, one of our faith’s three...

Our Baptist story started when Henry VIII wanted the Pope (Clement VII) to grant him a divorce from his wife Catherine of Aragon, and the Pope would not do it. Henry decided he could deal with this problem by creating an entirely new church movement that essentially...

Years ago, in the midst of a busy morning, my administrative assistant buzzed me to say, “A Charlotte Observer reporter is on the line. He wants to talk to you.” I picked up the receiver and the reporter said, “Dr. Kremer, explain to me the Christian understanding of...

This story is strange and disturbing. On one level, Jepthah was one of Israel’s most formidable judges, a great warrior, brave, strong, intelligent – and profoundly insecure, though that’s the last word he would have used to describe himself. In a moment of...

“Saul arose from the ground and when his eyes were opened, he could see nothing.“ Before we contemplate the figure of Saul in his darkness, let us think about people in our contemporary world who feel as if they live in darkness: the man in the doctor’s office who has...