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…
Arthur’s Law
IT’S ACCEPTED WISDOM, thanks to the recovery community, that we are as sick as our secrets. But I learned from Arthur the gnome that, sometimes, what…
The gift of ears
THE STORY OF the Day of Pentecost has prompted much division over one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and whether it is for today:…
The do-over disciple
ONE OF THE greatest do-overs in the Bible had entirely passed me by until I stumbled across it recently. It features “Peter the Impetuous,” as the…
Lighted by the blind
HAVING THROWN A few pity parties in my time, I have learned this about them: not many people want to come, and those that do show…
Noah and the mud
FOR A BRIEF moment, I felt like a little kid again this past weekend, standing in my best clothes and dripping mud. At least, that’s where…
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