Sigve K. Tonstad

Søren Kierkegaard once imagined a theater catching fire. A clown rushed onto the stage to warn the audience. They thought it was part of the show and laughed. Even as the flames advanced, the laughter continued, and no one moved to safety.1 This chilling allegory feels uncomfortably close to our own time. But today, it…

Few words are more conspicuous in the Bible’s account of Creation than the enthusiastic declaration: “God saw that it was good.”  As each day’s work was reviewed, that statement immediately followed. Light was good, dry land was good, plants yielding seeds and trees bearing fruit were good, sun and the moon were good, creatures of…