In his book The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis says that needing an explanation for everything is, in the end, impossible.  He says, “You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away.  You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever.  The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.  It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque.  How if you saw through the garden [...]

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” - Matthew 6:9   What does it mean that the first person of the Trinity is called “Father”? There is a lot that could be said here. Among other things, “Father,” according to Scott Swain, means, “Before the existence of creation…the Father and his only begotten Son dwelled in eternal, mutual delight in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.” So, first and foremost, “Father” tells us something of how the persons within the Trinity relate. “Father” also means that all things [...]