The difficulty of this passage roots in the conundrum that what seems to be the specific will of God in this instance so clearly contradicts the general will of God throughout the Bible. Throughout the Old Testament God unequivocally commands the Hebrew people not to...

Many few years ago the Kremer family took a quick camping trip, and optimists that we were, we left the house in a driving rain storm. We stopped at a store to look at kitchen canopies and my thrifty wife said, “Let’s wait until they’re on sale.”  “Honey,” I replied,...

Normally, this would be the season when stadiums and high school auditoriums would be filled with graduates listening to baccalaureate addresses and commencement speeches in which no small number of them would feature the feel-good theme of positive psychology: ...

A little over twenty years ago, two enraged and heavily-armed teenagers determined to wreak havoc in their community, entered Columbine High School and found several terrified students huddling in the library.  They apparently asked at least two of these students, “Do...

During the last Christmas of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was surprised in prison by a visit from his young fiancee’ Maria, who brought him a special gift -- a Christmas tree for his cell.  Unfortunately, young Maria had grossly miscalculated the size of the tree and...