Our Calling as Christians
What does it mean to follow Christ after the church service is over? His love calls us to turn from sin and learn to love the people around us.
What does it mean to follow Christ after the church service is over? His love calls us to turn from sin and learn to love the people around us.
Organizations let people achieve what individuals cannot. Yet collective power does not guarantee fidelity to purpose. From Babel to modern scandals, the deeper danger is how power, divided responsibility, and self-preservation can gradually displace mission.
Modern life teaches us to expect speed, results, and immediate answers. Scripture reveals a different rhythm: patience, faith, and a love willing to wait.
We often imagine that having alternatives means having choices. But what a person can actually choose is constrained by knowledge, ability, resources, history and time. Our real choices are often far more limited than they appear.
Before asking how we should live, we may need to ask a more fundamental question: what is the condition of our existence?
Before we act, more than one future remains possible. Once an action enters the past, it becomes part of a history we cannot rewrite. Yet as long as life continues, the future is not fully closed.
Suffering does not guarantee wisdom, faith, or meaning. It can shatter the world a person relies on and close the future from view. To understand suffering is not to justify it, but to ask how life can remain open when loss is irreversible and explanation remains incomplete.
The Book of Job begins with a man declared blameless and upright—and then strips him of his children, wealth, and health. What follows is not an explanation of suffering, but a challenge to the ways we explain it.
What happens when denying a diagnosis is treated as evidence of illness? From psychiatric abuse to international human rights law, this essay asks who can protect those deprived of freedom.
A historical label can outlive the conditions that produced it. This essay examines how patriotic language reshapes public judgment, consumer choice, and responsibility.
What happens when education makes people more capable without making them more trustworthy? The deeper task of education is to ask what human ability should ultimately serve.
Why does lying become advantageous in modern society? Arlen Vare examines the institutional incentives, public desires, and moral costs that allow falsehood to thrive.
A philosophical question should face two tests: whether its claims are justified, and whether the question itself is important enough to deserve our limited intellectual attention.