Lenten Notes on Notre-Dame’s Destruction
The empty husk of European Christendom has finally gone up in flames. Have you heard? Tell it on every social media platform: Notre-Dame, the glamorous gothic ‘lady’ and icon of […]
Category Archives: On Anything and Everything
Why I wrote The Paradox of Happiness
I wrote The Paradox of Happiness, ironically, because I felt unhappy about our current understandings of happiness. What are the common proposals? Buy this product. Get this gorgeous. Follow the seven […]
Can I Pray for my Country at the World Cup?
The answer to this question I received long ago. I was 14 back then, during the 1998 World Cup in France. We were watching a tense game at a summer […]
Becoming a Creative Minority
Why don’t Evangelical Christians create much culture? One of the several reasons, I’d argue, regards how we envision our faith. The story of faith I inherited usually started with human […]
The Frustrated Photographer
I have a love–hate relationship with photography. Ever since I was a kid, my recollection of events and places is tied to particular images either mum or I captured. My […]
Reflections on the Death of Billy Graham
Billy Graham, a personal hero of mine and a giant of 20th-century Christianity, has died this week. Christianity Today has a beautiful special edition with articles on his life and […]
#metoo
But of course…me too. This month’s scandal of a powerful man, Harvey Weinstein, using that power to manipulate, harass, and assault women spread beyond the safe confines of the online […]
The Hallelujah of Skateboarding
There’s a hallelujah for pretty much everything: a point, a moment, when one’s observation or participation in a thing calls forth praise to God. Most of the time we miss […]
Rejoice in the Lamb – and other pets
I recently had the privilege of meeting someone who gave a presentation in which he proposed that vegetarianism should be adopted by Christians as part of their missional agenda to […]
Is God Against the Imagination?
Is God against the imagination? Curiously, many people respond with an affirmative yes. The second of the Ten Commandments – which asks us to not adore any image of God […]
