Christopher Hazell, Author at Word on Fire

Christopher Hazell

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Christopher Hazell is a writer and editor. He is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of North Texas, where he is also a teaching fellow. He is the author of Ends in Mind, a newsletter about culture, technology, Christian spirituality, the arts, and more.

Fumbling Toward the Fulfillment of Our Desires

Giving God Our Full and Undivided Attention

Maintaining Inner Peace

How to Live a Life of Risk and Meaning

How Do We Respond with Love to a Crying World?

Why Is God So Demanding of Us?

How to Avoid a Fractured Spirituality

Curing Spiritual Procrastination

The Tightrope of Technology

Nature and the Soul

Are We Suffering for the Wrong Reasons?

Why Christian Higher Education Still Matters

Our Utilitarian Utopia

Where Are We Going?

Our Declining Empathy and Ability to See God

Is Busyness Jeopardizing Our Souls?

Receiving and Sharing a Love that Isn’t Fair

Convenience at the Cost of Our God-Given Freedom?

Sin, Happiness, and Breaking Out of Spiritual Boredom

Why We So Desperately Need Community

In Response to God’s Silence

The Spiritual Pitfalls of Wandering Thoughts and Streaming Music

Our Inordinate Desire to Become Superhuman

The Great Temptation of Productivity

Eyes that Don’t See: To Know Much But Understand Little

Why I’ve Always Believed in God

Why Are We So Stressed Out?

Why Marrying the “Wrong Person” Is Reason for Hope

What Should Christians Think About Self-Help Books?

What is Our Answer to Life’s One Question?

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and God’s Mysterious Providence

When We Don’t See God Clearly

By The Sweat of Your Brow: The Indispensable Role of Our Day Jobs

Laying Down the Cross that Leads to Death

Is It Better to Have Loved and Lost?

Saving Souls by Being Merry This Christmas

The Allure and Terror of Death

The Vulnerable & Rejected God: Power Made Perfect in Weakness

Football, the Sabbath, and Our Sunday Shrine

The Danger of Being in Love with “Love”

Waking Up from the American Dream

Giving Up the Faith that Leads to Loss

”Inside Out” and God’s Gift of Sadness

What “Jurassic World” Teaches Us About Pope Francis’ New Encyclical

”Mad Max” and the Quest for Redemption