The first book that’s both inspiring and challenging me is “The Wisdom of the Native Americans” Kent Nerburn has compiled a variety of...

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

The church hasn’t been immune to this polarizing.  We’ve mirrored the culture’s political tribal hatred, enough so that it’s increasingly...

The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy… but I have come that they might have life!  – Jesus the Christ Each untimely loss is tragic,...

The first winter we lived in the mountains, an early storm knocked down hundreds of fir trees deep in the cascades, and those trees...

Christ followers are exiles.  Accept it.  We always have been, always will be.  When Paul said “maranatha” in I Corinthians 16:22 he was...

I wrote it out on an index card and put it in my pocket.  It served me well during those tumultuous days, when I was feeling socially...

What does the pornography problem in the Bible belt, and the appalling lack of generosity among democrats have to do with a burnt/raw...

Do you remember eighth grade geometry, and the subject of axioms?  An axiom is “a statement or proposition that is regarded as being...

But what does “the land of the free” really mean? And in what sense are we free?  The questions weren’t political for me this year but...

lake.  It’s about a half mile down to the park on the waterfront and when I arrive, the suns maybe 15 minutes from dipping below the Alps...

Meanwhile, our pop culture offers one of it’s stars at a music awards show and we’re struck with the realization that nobility,...

Daniel and Esther are two personalities in Israel’s history who understood that they will gladly serve the king, and work for the good of...