Why Our Idea of God Matters  The first sentence in A.W. Tozer’s classic book The Knowledge of the Holy begins as follows: “What comes into our minds when we think

Divine Uniqueness: God among the False Gods In this episode our plan is to interact with Tara Isabella Burton’s 2020 book Strang Rites: New Religions for a godless world.[1] I

Divine Uncontainability: The Greatness of God in a Disenchanted World   It is sometimes said that there are three dominant worldviews that are competing for our attention today. First, there is

Divine Eternity and Eternal Life This is a topic that has fascinating me ever since I took a class on God and time in seminary at Talbot. Thinking about God’s

Divine Presence and the Room of Grace  In a disenchanted world, we all too often experience the felt absence of God. God is not present with us, it seems. Worse,

Divine Knowledge and God’s Grace In his book, A Great and Terrible Love, the writer Mark Galli notes that omniscience has fallen on hard times.[1]And this is for at least

Divine Omnipotence and the Power to Change At its most basic level, power is understood as an ability to bring about an effect. The English word comes from the Latin

Divine Goodness and Resting in God Let’s begin by considering Scripture’s claims about God’s moral character. Why think that God is perfectly morally good, or omnibenevolent? Consider some of my

Divine Beauty and Harmonious Joy Let’s work into this topic slowly. I begin by making three basic claims. First, beauty is a kind of value. Thus, the discipline of philosophy

Divine Love and the Pleasure of God Let’s begin with two claims about love, one from our culture’s perspective and one from the Bible’s perspective. First, culture tells us that