The cart before the verse
NEXT TIME YOU think God needs a hand, think twice before you reach out and touch something. As Uzzah’s story illustrates, good intentions don’t override God’s…
The ‘fake news’ fallacy
LET’S START THIS with a disclaimer: what follows is a politically neutral commentary that offers no opinions on President Donald Trump’s policies. While his approval rating…
Wish you were here
I NEVER ACTUALLY thought about how to kill myself. Still, there were more than a few nights when I went to bed not caring if I…
Revisiting who we were
IT’S NOT THE most elegant of images, but sometimes I think of Christianity as like waking up in a poorly lit coal cellar. Sitting with your…
Flawed or fraud?
THIS GUY I know would make every “emerging leader” list around. He has charmed audiences and congregations across the country and around the world. He is…
A tangled tapestry
WHEN I LIVED in Amsterdam, I knew someone who owned one of Corrie Ten Boom’s famous tapestries. The Dutch survivor of a World War II concentration…
A last-place lesson
FOR A WALTER Mitty moment, I could see myself as a hero. But then reality set in, and everyone else saw me as I really was:…
The lost art of waiting
IN A WORLD where we get bent out of shape when it takes more than a few seconds for our favorite website to load, we have…
Two kinds of loss
JUST AS THERE are two kinds of sin, acts of commission and acts of omission, the things you did and the things you didn’t, so there…
The essential oil for marriage
ANYTHING WITH MOVING parts needs some form of lubrication. That’s equally true for marriage, and no, this is not an advert for the “intimate supplies” section…
