Through and past, He sees you
I SUSPECT THAT two of the biggest groups in many churches are those who feel they are not really welcome, and those that may seem to…
Burying my bucket list
APPROACHING A decade-turning birthday, I have decided to swap my bucket list for a bucket and spade. Sure, there are places I want to go and…
Five fixes for flat Christian journalism
WHAT WITH FAKE news, partisan press, and click-bait, there may well never have been a time when we have more needed good Christian journalists practicing good…
Standing by a sinkhole
YOU MAY HAVE heard the story of the man who went away on a trip and called the person house-sitting for him to ask about Billy,…
Neighbearhood alert!
IF THE APOSTLE Peter lived in our neighborhood, then part of the New Testament would read a little differently, I suspect. In his first epistle, he…
Disagreements and diamonds
ONE OF THE journalism basics I was taught that it took a long time to shake off was the idea of getting both sides of the…
A little girl called Irma
ALTHOUGH I AM typically not much of a television watcher, because I live in Florida I spent a fair amount of last weekend glued to CNN.…
Buckling down
I’VE NEVER BEEN very comfortable with the message some Christians offer along the lines of, “Come to Jesus, and all your problems will be over.” Frankly,…
The surprise party
WHEN MY KIDS were small I knew of a fellow dad who gave his little ones balloons to hold each week when they went to church…
Crowdsourcing cowardice
YOU MIGHT SUSPECT that a small boy who was so unnerved by the ladybird buttons on his dressing gown that he asked his mother to replace…
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