God has long called out prophets for his people. They are necessary. They are sanctioned to see and speak sometimes hard things to keep God’s people on track. We certainly need them now, too. Please hear me gently suggest that there is a problem sometimes when we stand up and point out in our day. It seems like there is a common, knock-off brand of voice crying out that feels more like the investigative reporter on my local news station. Is it prophetic or just cynical?Read more

Excerpt from Finding God Beyond Harvard: The Quest for Veritas (July, 2006, IVP)

…. I realized that in my wounded condition, but even in my best condition, I could only perceive and reason imperfectly, incompletely, and that I could know Truth only if Truth made itself known. If God ever spoke my language. If he condescends.

So, where does the evidence lead? Has anything or anyone beyond us ever made himself known? Has anyone with actual authority over time, space, matter, and energy ever broken into our world? Ever spoken or shown his hand or face?

I remembered the previous summer’s Veritas Institute for professors, families, and friends. At the end of several academic years, a few hundred of us would head north to Michigan and a cove on Lake Huron called Cedar Campus. We’d first decompress and catch up on sleep. Then we’d kayak or hike to Narnia, a cove with mossy green trails and limestone caves. We sailed on the camp’s J-22, The Dawn Treader, between islands...Read more