Ben Daniel

From the pulpit and in the blog-o-sphere, as an author, as a husband, as a father, and as a friend, I want to live and practice the kind of faith offered up by Frank in his latest book.

Who among us is willing to say that the invasion of a foreign land by a nation drunk with power and consumed with imperial lust is both legal and moral while crossing a desert in search of menial employment and a better future for one’s family is neither?

If someone so grouchy as John Calvin was able, from time to time, to write with such profound grace in support of fine ideas, then maybe regular people of generally amiable dispositions can hope to create even greater beauty.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) Book of Order’s current focus on homosexuality puts Presbyterians in danger of adhering to a faith that is too hard on some of us and too easy on most of us.

While I don’t like the idea that the some of the folks who sent the world’s markets into a tailspin are making more in a year-end bonus than I’m likely to earn in my entire professional career, I’ve come to expect such things at the place where business a