Choosing the right Jesus
IF THERE’S ONE thing that’s clear from the Gospel accounts, it’s that it is awfully easy to lose sight of the real Jesus. From the disciples…
Honey, I shrunk the world
NEIL POSTMAN is rightly remembered for his prescient classic, Amusing Ourselves to Death, in which, way back in the 1980s, he worried about how visual media…
Keeping their secrets
OVER THE PAST year or so, three people whose life stories I got to hear in uncommon detail have died, leaving me as the keeper of…
Living unafraid
I’VE NEVER BEEN much of a “guy’s guy.” I have zero interest in cars (I believe that ours may be white), and I loathe fishing with…
Singing what I can’t say
THE FIRST RECORD I ever owned of my own choosing (there was a previous Christmas gift of an Alvin and The Chipmunks novelty single) was “Ferry…
Notoriety and no-names
NEVER HAS THE definition of a celebrity as someone who is “famous for being famous” been truer than it is today. Even in the church we…
No time for debate
FOR ME, ONE of the most striking images from the racial unrest of the last 18 months came from my homeland—a picture of a British Black…
Getting unburied
THE GREAT GIFT of salvation means freedom from the consequences and power of sin—not only ours, but those acts committed against us. We don’t have to…
A sobering assessment
A VAST communication net now covers the earth, even to its remotest reaches. Granting all its huge public benefits, this limitless world forum is nevertheless a…
Experiencing God as Father
TRYING TO DESCRIBE the Trinity is something of a loser’s game. After all, how can you explain the inexplainable? How can you put into words something…
