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I have a new post at her.meneutics: “The State of Sex.”  It begins: When it comes to attitudes about sex in America, I often find myself somewhere between cynical and hopeless. I read statistics about 95 percent of adults losing their virginity before marriage. I look at the magazine rack in the grocery store and…

I used to get emails from an organization–I think it was called “Save Darfur”–and those emails arrived about once a week. For a time, I read them and did nothing in response to their content. Then I started deleting them without opening them at all. Then I unsubscribed from their email list. Even with a…

Yesterday, I posted a question from a reader about whether my religious faith provides me with continuous inspiration. Here’s my response:   My favorite preacher, Tim Keller, has often said that there is a big difference between inspiration and transformation. Inspiration is momentary and fleeting–exactly what you describe in reading a line from a poem…

A friend of mine (and reader of this blog) recently wrote an email in which she asked,   “Does Christianity/Christian practice/ the Bible work for you as any sort of inspiration to keep your mind on higher things, let’s call them?   I’ve long wanted to keep my focus, as best as I can, off…
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