Taproot Theatre in Seattle is presently running a play about one of my faith heroes, Sophie Scholl.  Along with her brother Hans, these tw...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you...

Born in Germany and educated both there and at Oxford, Delmer was uniquely qualified to have a foot in both German and British culture, a...

a few of the thousands save by courage, hospitality, and generosity. Every time I travel in Europe I try to read some European history, e...

Thanks be to God, the tide is turning.  Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner occurred at a time when they were viewed as isolated incidents ye...

A letter in the Washington Post This week World Relief bought space in the Washington Post in order to invite President Trump to reconsid...

Words matter. Mr. Trump spoke on the bus about making unwanted sexual advances and literally grabbing women. He spoke to Howard Stern abo...

It’s nothing new. And further, it’s nothing new to note that it’s all being done in God’s name by both sides. Giving a soldier a Bible th...

Mourning at a stadium in San Bernadino Behind the holiday lights, both here in Europe and back home in the USA, the waves of unhappy news...

“And in His name all oppression shall cease…” These were the lyrics coming from the speakers yesterday afternoon when I discovered there’...

That’s because I live in a different world.  I live in a world where I know more and more people who are coming out of closet; they’re ga...

As a result, I’ve had time to think, and the convergence zone of some teaching I’m doing for staff at the church I lead, and my reading h...

In two weeks I’ll be home, preparing to meet people in the church I lead who I haven’t seen in nearly three months.  Their priceless gift...

We’re waiting for the cable car that will haul us up to the Douglass Hut, the base from which we’ll be hiking over a couple of passes to ...

These prayers, though, are also very provincial.  They’re about our real situation because mostly, this is what we know about when we’re ...

In just a few short days, my wife and I will be off to Europe where we’ll trek through the Alps, fully expecting to find the fingerprints...

It’s high time that the realities of suffering, racism, oppression, and ongoing injustice rose to the top of our collective consciousness...

Dissociative disorder is defined as a “disruption or breakdown of memory, awareness, identity or perception.”  It’s a common occurrence a...

equal and opposite reaction.  Likely true in the world of matter, but this week evangelicals managed to prove that Newton’s law bears no ...

And so begins a mini drama where Abraham’s wife is taken by force because of her beauty and offered to the harem of the highest leader in...