‘Basic Instinct’ Author Has Damascus Road Experience

After a lifetime of wild living…
“He felt an overwhelming peace. His heart stopped pounding. His hands stopped twitching. He saw a ’shimmering, dazzling, nearly blinding brightness that made me cover my eyes with my hands.’”
–Joe Eszterhas, author, Basic Instinct and new spiritual memoir Crossbearer
Toledo Blade Article: ‘Basic Instinct’ author writes book about faith

What Does A Spiritually Whole Person Look Like?

“A spiritually whole person longs in certain classical ways. She longs for God and the beauty of God, for Christ and Christlikeness, for the dynamite of the Holy Spirit and spiritual maturity. She longs for spiritual hygiene itself—and not just as a consolation prize when she cannot be rich and envied instead. She longs for [...]

Lauren Winner on Being Awake

Most of us live, after all, in relative ignorance – we speak in ignorance, pray in ignorance, and have sex in ignorance, because we are not awake; because our moral lives are not well enough formed to know whether the shape they are taking is right or wrong, gray or black or white.
-Lauren Winner, Real [...]

CT Editor: “God Spoke to Me”

A professor of theology, author, and contributing editor for Christianity Today wrote an article about how God spoke to him. The article starts out:
I’m a middle-aged professor of theology at a well-known Christian university. I’ve written award-winning books. My name is on Christianity Today’s masthead. For years I’ve taught that God still speaks, but [...]

Akiane Kramarik – Child Prodigy

Does she fit into your theological box?

A New Kind of Life

I want to spend a month in the wilderness, with nothing but healthy food to eat, natural spring water from the mountain to drink, my soul, and the person who made all the universes. I have spent 25 – by the time May rolls around, 26 – years of my life mostly existing and [...]

Sacred Pathways

A few months ago I skimmed a book called Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas, which is about discovering your soul’s path to God. It’s not advocating a “do what’s good for you” spirituality; I wouldn’t read such rubbish. Rather, it acknowledges that there are different spiritual temperaments and it’s quite foolish to think [...]