Hans Boersma

Our active life is worthy of celebration only because it aims at the contemplative life. Continue Reading »

Prayer gives us entry into the eschaton, where we see the eternal glory of the Son of God. Continue Reading »

It is God’s eternal Word, incarnate in Christ, which allows us to read the present time.  Continue Reading »

My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it is often the brightest and most eloquent, those who are least justified in parroting Moses’s excuse—“I am slow of speech and of tongue”—who lack the confidence to open the Scriptures for the . . . . Continue Reading »

By memorizing, we turn away from sinful distraction and share in God’s own, ever-reliable memory in Christ. Continue Reading »

Scripture demands an Advent posture. The most important things are not the ones we see. Continue Reading »

First, sex is searching for God. I purposely put this thesis up front, as number one. Sex finds its purpose in God in that sexual union is a symbol or a sacrament of union with Christ. Paul writes in Ephesians 5:32 that this is what the mystery of sexual union is about. So you cannot think . . . . Continue Reading »

No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the underprivileged and marginalized lies at the heart of our Judeo-Christian heritage. Many today believe it patently “unfair” and “unjust” to ban an entire group of people from the benefits of marriage merely because they happen to be attracted to people of the same sex… . Continue Reading »

What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George Encounter, 168 pages, $15.99 No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the . . . . Continue Reading »

The death of a loved one is excruciatingly painful, and it would seem wrong to ask moral questions about the appropriateness of someone’s grief, as if it were possible to hold our emotions in check at such horribly difficult times. It would appear cruel to imply to those in mourning that there is . . . . Continue Reading »