5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (727+ words) In recent years, evangelicals have shown renewed interest in the hermeneutics of the Church Fathers. Current scholarship has devoted considerable attention to premodern approaches to reading Scripture, but fewer works describe the method behind their practice. Yet the fourfold sense…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1796+ words) Most of us deal with death by choosing to ignore it. “Being unable to cure death,” Blaise Pascal once wrote, “we’ve decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.” In Pascal’s 17th-century Parisian context, death-avoidance was…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (701+ words) Ask 10 Christians what happiness is, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers. Wilson helps untangle the confusion by distinguishing several biblical “flavors” of happiness, reminding readers that “not all happiness is equal” (30). The thrill of new romance, the satisfaction of meaningful…...