Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth. — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“Step on my toe. Must I curse? I may. Must I forgive you? I may. Must I yell? I may. Must I smile? I… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their unbiblical view of nature. Christians have long failed to understand what the Bible really teaches concerning nature and our responsibility for it. For this there is no excuse. Repentance must be our first response. Our… — James W. Sire Copy Share
“Each action of each of us, each decision to pursue one course rather than another, changes or rather "produces" the future. By” — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“But nothing external to God can possibly constrain him. If he chooses to restore a broken universe, it is because he "wants" to, because,… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments are measured.… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“God does not love us because we are so valuable; we are valuable because God loves us."12” — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
