Desert island disciples
ONE OF MY favorite jokes is about the man found after spending years shipwrecked alone on a desert island. As his rescuers sail away with him,…
Pulled over, pulled up short
SOMETIMES, HAVING been at this Christian thing for some considerable time now, I get to thinking that Jesus must be pretty pleased to have me on…
Down from the mountain
Like Peter, James, and John on the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus took me up high this past week, so I could see Him more clearly. In…
The most important thing
So it’s half-time in the big game. Things could go either way, and you have time to say only one thing to your team before they…
It’s not called The Facts of the Apostles…
If Christians want to gain any kind of hearing in the public space, I suspect that it will only come through becoming unreasonable. I don’t mean…
Jump-starting a kangaroo court
I love to shake my head over how dumb some people in the Bible were, not realizing that Jesus was the Son of God when He…
Struck by a lightning rod
Living in the lightning capital of the United States, I have learned to keep an eye on the dark clouds when setting out on a long…
Jesus and the toothbrush
So you get the opportunity to ask Jesus a question, face to face. What’s it going to be? How can you be loving and allow so…
The difference between pose and poise
I wonder how much more interesting conversations might be if we stopped asking someone we met for the first time, “What do you do?” and inquired…
The Nikene Creed
As a journalist I have long professionally employed the half-a-dozen “honest working men” Rudyard Kipling praised in his famous poem: who, what, why, where, when, and…
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