We know our world needs a revolution. Things are not as they should be. However, as we watch the young revolutionaries in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, their passion ends in…
As Christians, our motivation is love. Love of God brings love of neighbor, and that love of neighbor deepens our love of God. Marius and Cosette share one of the…
The story of Fantine may be one of the most poetically horrifying tales to grace the Broadway stage and cinema. The fact that she never seems to overcome her struggle…
Sometimes we think that justice and grace are opposite expressions of God, as Psalm 30:5 poetically suggests—“For his anger is but for a moment; his favor is for a lifetime”—but…
We have two options when it comes to grace: we can deny it or receive it. How does our confession of our whole selves, both the times we have denied…