In Search of a Better Country

Author: Burrows

  • “But can they be trusted?”

    I suggest that we need to recover the sense in which the Gospels are testimony. This does not mean that they are testimony rather than history. It means that the kind of historiography they are is testimony. An irreducible feature of testimony as a form of human utterance is that it asks to be trusted.…

  • “Come to Me”

    “Come to Me”

    And when Jesus completed these words, the crowds were astounded by his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority and not as one of their scribes. Matthew 7:28–29 Many misinterpret the Sermon as nothing more than good advice. Matthew 7:12 (the “Golden Rule”) may in this sense be the most abused…

  • Jesus, the True and Better Doc Brown

    Did you ever see the movie Back to the Future? At the end, the eccentric inventor Doc Brown comes back from the future to warn Marty McFly. The Delorean time machine comes flying out of the sky and lands in front of Marty’s home. Doc gets out and begins urging Marty to come with him…

  • J.I. Packer

  • We Are Starving For Wonder

    The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. — G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1910), 7.

  • Matthew 6:26

    Matthew 6:26