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…
Through different eyes
AS A YOUNG reporter, I got to interview a group of World War II veterans who had been invited to a preview screening of A Bridge…
John’s Easter egg
JOHN THE BAPTIST would not make a great church planter. He dressed weird. Held his meetings in the middle of nowhere. Doesn’t appear to have taken…
Call me a Pentecrosstal
WITHOUT GETTING hung up on whether it’s a separate experience from conversion, I believe that the infilling of the Holy Spirit is every Christian’s new-birthright. And,…
Thanking a friend
ENGLISH POET Philip Larkin famously wrote that, in one way, life started for him in 1963 (Google his “Annus Mirabilis” for the unexpurgated version). For me,…
The serpent and the weasel
EVERYONE KNOWS about the serpent in the Garden of Eden, but many overlook the presence of another questionable creature. The weasel. Eve may have led the…
Facing the meanie in me
MUCH AS I hate to admit it, I have a bit of a mean streak in me. I like to present an affable face to the…
BC words in an AD world
WHEN I USED to teach classes on communications, I’d outline a glass on the whiteboard, then draw a line across it midway. “Is the glass half-full…
The Son of Mañana?
READING THROUGH Mark’s Gospel recently for a guys’ group I am part of, I was struck by how often the writer uses the word “immediately”—more than…
An awkward Easter
I’M HOPING THAT lots of first-time and once-in-a-blue-moon churchgoers who turn out for services this Easter Sunday are—despite regular attendees’ best efforts to make them feel…
