Tolkien Tuesday: 1-A “Long Defeat” is Still a Defeat 
Is Tolkien’s legendarium, like the Norse legends, driven more by despair than by hope? If all things seem to come to ruin, what is the place of hope in Middle-Earth? And if his mythology is meant to shed light on the Primary World - our…
Justin BaileyMay 12, 2020
Crisis, Cliché, and Costly Hope
What makes a cliché a cliché? Is it the sheer fact of overuse, like a pop hit that has been overplayed? Or is it the brevity, boiling down complexity to fit on a bumper sticker? Or is it the sugary comfort that dissolves like cotton…
Justin BaileyMay 4, 2020
Advent – which contemplates the great miracle of God becoming a human being – is a challenge to our intellect: “how can these things be?” But it is also a challenge to our imagination, the lens through which we see the world, what the Bible…
Justin BaileyDecember 9, 2018
We rightly grieve over many things: over fractured relationships, frustrated hopes, and broken dreams. If we are honest, we often wonder why Jesus didn’t seem to show up at the time or in the way that we expected him to show up. Why does it…
Justin BaileyApril 1, 2018