‘Who’s Gonna Clean Up That Mess?’

‘Who’s Gonna Clean Up That Mess?’

I work in an office with a floor-to-ceiling window that overlooked a construction site. Among the machines that were there solely to distract me was a giant version of an immersion blender. Its purpose was to churn the ground in preparation for the excavator to scoop...

Joseph’s Quiet Embrace of Holiness

The notion of holiness as perfection is not a helpful understanding of holiness. In our journey in following Jesus, simply “not behaving badly” is a misunderstanding of the mission of God. We often point to a verse in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for a...

Evangelicals, Catholics Release Statement on Holiness

A group of Catholic and evangelical scholars that has been in dialogue for more than a decade has issued a new statement condemning spiritual sloth. The statement, published in the Catholic journal First Things and the evangelical magazine Christianity Today, affirms...