Mirror Dimly Blog

Regardless of one's stage in life, a Christian should always be able to answer the questions: what do I think Jesus is saying to me and how do I know that he's saying it to me? These inquiries were advised unendingly by Gordon T. Smith; a scholar who taught…

You’ve heard the old adage, “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” I can attest that this is true not only for men, but for women too. That’s the way I won my wife’s heart; I finally convinced her to come over…

Freedom is one of our culture’s favourite buzzwords. It’s an applauded theme in film, politics, and art, and why shouldn’t it be? Freedom is a long sought after human right. Well known writer Ayn Rand said, “I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my…

In Saint Paul's "love chapter" Paul provides us with a metaphor to explain our earthly limitations. Life before the resurrection is life lived as though through a mirror dimly. In context, Paul is speaking about the different aspects of worship that revolve around Scripture; singing,…

If our religion is something objective, then we must never avert our eyes from those elements in it which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be precisely the puzzling or the repellent which conceals what we do not yet know and need to know.CS…