I don’t know if you heard anything about this, but Bin Laden was killed this past week.  Yep… some Navy SEALs snuck into the Pakistan and...

Those days are gone for now, and what I love about springtime is that I don’t need to move two feet in order to find immense beauty.  I...

Do justice – like my friends at International Justice Mission who are working to end human slavery, or my friend Walter who’s saving...

In my readings for the upcoming symposium of faith and science that I’m attending, I’ve discovered that the deeper one goes down the...

I’ve always had friends who are “into” Biblical prophecy and finding the dates of Christ’s return.  In the ’70s, I saw charts and graphs...

our economy: climbing without a rope If you’re reading these words, you’re likely among the top 10% of wealthiest people in the world....

To live faithfully is to live 'fully present in this world' Last night I was privileged to participate in a panel discussion about the...

Conversations continued for a long time, ranging from the significance of God’s breath of life breathed into Adam in Genesis 2, to more...

does decaf affect the quality of coffee with God? In the church I lead, I’ve been teaching from II Corinthians 3 and 4 these past weeks,...

“Behold, I make all things new.” -Jesus the Christ Do you remember (either the book or the movie) in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,...

Can't stop thinking? You need...appropriation Have you ever woken in the middle of the night with your head swirling around ideas,...

“The Practice of the Wild” by Gary Snyder.  It’s not a book that most Christians are reading because Gary’s a Buddhist, but never mind. ...

sometimes the water just sits there “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the...

there's a new way to live...better, freer It’s available for all of us.  It’s not contingent (thank God) on circumstances.  It’s able to...

shouldn't someone question this? When I turned on the radio Saturday morning and heard about the earthquake, I only heard the second half...

What’s gained by abstaining from a certain food, or from Facebook, or  TV, or reading blogs (please no!) for a season? It’s a good...

He turned and faced me directly: “Have you been baptized with the Holy Spirit, and given evidence of that by speaking in tongues?”...

Every person is different, but this is not my favorite kind of week.  The rhythm of restoration and output isn’t balanced in these kind...

The amazing art of Rima Staines (click on picture to link to her site) In part one of The Matter of the Body I shared that a great deal...

As Dennis Haack writes, “Right up to the medieval age, the church believed that fantasy creatures, sorcerers, ghouls, goblins, and ghosts...