When Christians abandon the public square, what happens to community values? To ethics? To moral standards?

We are called to be signposts of the kingdom in a world where nothing seems to have metaphysical or moral weight; and yet it does, and that it does, it is ours to steward, with imagination, winsomeness, clarity, and determination.

Listening, building trust and providing a safe place to be truthful are key to evangelism.

How the study of philosophy, history, art, and science cultivates our love of God.

In their new book “God Dwells Among Us: Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth,” authors G.K. Beale and Mitchell Kim hope to “fuel the church to fulfill its mission in the world.”

We need a culture — informed and shaped by God’s people — that celebrates what it means to provide

Trauma is extraordinary, she says, “not because it rarely happens, but because it swallows up and destroys normal human ways of living.” We have a choice. “We can flit from one cause to another or, like Jesus, we can leave our place of comfort and enter into the suffering.”

Christians struggle with prayer. So much so, says Paul Miller, author of A Praying Life, that only about 10 percent of believers claim to have an effective or meaningful prayer life.

In the great art there are what I call echoes of Eden — memories of the true story of who we are — and of the world as God originally created it — beautiful and good and glorious.

“Christ’s grace does not wait until the last chapters of Matthew to make its appearance.” Rather, it is “the dawning light increasing throughout Scripture toward the day of the Savior.”