Donna came in while I was playing, a bit emotional, because this kind of playing is part of us.  I wooed this woman with a piano about 35...

woman caught in adultery to catch Jesus in a theological conundrum so that they could condemn him too.  He’d have none of it, though, for...

“If you give…” series.  I like it because it speaks to the realities of cause and affect, and the importance of what Peter would call the...

Dr. Sleeth gives us a hint of the issue when he writes that “to reduce traffic congestion during the Olympics, the city of Atlanta closed...

NOTE TO MY READERS:  I’m going to be moving my blog away from the Patheos website that presently hosts it, so if you’d like to be...

CEZ, OVC, ‘letter of invitation’, MOU, developing world, US Embassy, PEPFAR, cultural assimilation. These are words I never expected to...

“Why are you so far away?” writes one. “Because the world is wide and cold,” writes the other.  “Alas.” “That is sad…” “Indeed.” As...

1. Nobody would be able to predict the date of Christ’s establishment of the fulness of His kingdom. 2. Jesus’ departure would pave the...

It’s true.  It’s also true that the ‘everyone’ of whom Plato is speaking includes me, and you, and each of us.  This makes his admonition...

Vegetarian Myth (a favorite book of mine) takes pretty much the opposite approach. Back in the day, low fat was all the rage. Now it’s...

“stoppage time.” I’ve been waiting, since moving back to the Pacific Northwest in 1984, for Vancouver’s Canucks to win their first-ever...

what skills are needed to get to the future? Graduation is in the air, and David Brooks’ excellent article about the wrong-headed...

trying to do everything everyone wants is killing us Two books found their way into my world this spring, and their convergence has...

Westboro Baptist church is planning a protest for President Obama’s visit to Joplin, Mo., to inflict a little hate and misery, in Jesus’...

The Supreme Court ruling this week in California will require the release or transfer of 33,000 prison convicts in order to reduce...

Yes, the week on the island is over.  The week of being thrown together with what appeared to the naked eye to be an utterly random...

The resurrected Jesus is embodied.  The person that rose from the grave left empty sheets in the tomb.  This means that Jesus appeared...

While on the surface, they appear to be two wildly different worlds, they came together this morning in my quiet moments in the backyard....

Modernity isn’t just philosophical–it’s chemical.  It’s mechanical.  And though the industrial revolution brought us lots of great stuff,...

The book, as many of you already know, is called The Colors of Hope.  You can read a free chapter here.  You can join a Facebook...