Sometimes it’s best to turn away
I have long held that many Christians are far too namby-pamby when it comes to bad news. They avoid the unpleasant realities of the world as…
The inner life of Brian
There’s a scene in Monty Python’s outrageous The Life of Brian where a crowd gathers outside the home of an ordinary guy mistaken for God incarnate.…
When to stop asking questions
When people ask me what are the gifts of a Christian journalist, I tell them sanctified nosiness and redeemed skepticism. While most everyone else is going…
The new communication tightrope: between caution and carelessness
There’s not a long line of people holding numbers and awaiting their turn, but whenever someone asks me whether I think technology has changed the media…
It’s time to stop branding the church
When Christians complain about the present-day church and say the answer is just to do things the way they did back in the New Testament, I…
Parking therapy
Were I ever to open a life-coaching practice, the first question I would ask of new clients would not be where they feel they are stuck…
The (drab) rest of the Christmas story
We all know that gyms, weight-loss clubs, and counseling clinics see a spike in business in the early days of a new year, but I suspect…
Introducing the ABBYs: My Best of the Year
There’s nothing like an end-of-year “Best of” list for prompting an argument with your friends, so have this one on me. Through a complex set of…
Violent Night, Holy Night
LIKE SOME OF my favorite radio stations, since Thanksgiving I have been in “all-Christmas-music-all-the-time” mode. This annual custom has revealed two things: Not everyone agrees that…
Disney’s Happy Christmess!
Christmas always make me think of Disney World. Not because of the famous holiday parades—I’ve not seen one in person despite living only half an hour’s…
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