Christian Love

“Intellectual objections to the faith should be addressed. However… It should be apparent something inexplicable on natural grounds is at work. That’s Christian love.” - TGC

“Love isn’t unique to Christian communities, of course, but this verse suggests there should be something uniquely compelling about the kind of love Jesus’s disciples embody. Our friendship makes the reality of the gospel unignorable to the outside world.” - TGC

“Conspiracy theories, as unbelievable and problematic as they can be, provide adherents with both a sense of control and community.” - Kainos

“The first biblical principle is to ‘choose love not hate, as [our] posture’…. Second, we must ‘choose the Bible, not culture, as [our] authority.’” - Breakpoint

“We can hold our positions without being defensive or attacking others because we are secure and convinced. The retorts thrown our way don’t rattle us and we can answer with gentleness. We can hold to the truth without wondering if being kind and loving to others is somehow violating our convictions.” - Eric Geiger

“The moral philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) involves a merger of at least two apparently disparate traditions: Aristotelian eudaimonism and Christian theology.” - Providence

“Christmas — over any other season — tends to make life’s sweet things sweeter and hard things harder.” - Desiring God

“Seeing love as only desire is the error our culture falls into….But seeing Christian love, ‘agape love,’ as gift only is the more common error in the Christian church. And this error causes others.” - Mark Ward interviews Jonathan Leeman

“While Sabbath law didn’t permit me to ask someone to do something for me that I couldn’t do for myself, I hadn’t asked; he had offered. … They made Dovie and me feel as if we were doing them a favor by allowing them to be our chauffeurs.” - RNS