There has been a lot of debate in recent days about the nature Jesus' death. What did it mean? What did it cover? What did it accomplish? There are those who would try and minimize the necessity and propitiatory core of the death of the Savior of the world. If we do this, we miss the core of the Gospel. We miss the reality that we were once God's enemy and only through the...

I must begin by being clear that I am not nave about the realities of terrorism. I am also not nave that those realities often are and should be met with a return of force. I still remember vividly in March of 2003 as bombs lit up the night skies over Baghdad. However, this is not about a government or judicial response to the events of the last twenty-four hours in Boston...