Alone in the church
Diane Paddington has an interesting post at The Well, online journal of Women in the Academy and Professions (an initiative of InterVarsity’s Graduate & Faculty Ministries). You can read it here....
View ArticleGay marriage 3 – the case against – Updated
Editorial note: I experienced technical problems when this post went live on May 3, 2012. As a result, part of the original post was lost. I have recreated it to the best of my recollection. Sorry for...
View ArticleFulfillment through forgoing
One of the presuppositions of our culture is that more is, well, more–that with greater material affluence comes greater happiness or fulfillment, a better life. This runs counter to the principle of...
View Article[Repost] Parenting–best and worst of times
It's been about a year since I read Jennifer Senior's New York Times article, "All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting." The piece floated into my conscious mind this morning as I'm nursing...
View ArticleWhy you need a sacred space
Is there a place in your life that is holy–a sacred space to which you retreat? A place where you get away and are able to really think through and wrestle with the things that are most important in...
View ArticleWhat moves you?
“You can be religious in your use of Christian terminology: you can be religious inside of a Christian church. But one of the vital aspects of Christianity is that our activities are always the result...
View ArticleWhy you need margin
On friday I returned from a week-long trip work trip. A week before that I returned from ten days of vacation in Alabama. In all, my family and I have been out of town quite a bit–almost twenty days....
View ArticleHow the Bearenstain Bears ruined my day
The Bearenstain Bears changed the course of my day today. They made me miss a phone date with (my wife) Anna who is at Campus by the Sea this week–a place only slightly more difficult to reach by phone...
View ArticleTodd Aiken and the challenge of secularism
I haven’t followed the implosion of Covenant Seminary alumnus and Republican representative Todd Aiken’s political flame out. About the only thing I can say about it is that Aiken said something...
View ArticleHow our American way wars against the Christian way
I’ve been thinking about what it means to follow Jesus in twenty-first century American culture. The more I think about it, the more I’m forced to the conclusion that there’s a lot about our American...
View ArticleWho is my neighbor?
On Saturday I experienced a foretaste of the heavenly banquet. After spending the morning doing various things to serve our downtown community, members of our church went out and invited everyone they...
View ArticleFive books you should read this summer
Our schedules often loosen during the summer. We get to travel and spend time at the beach or the mountains. Summer is a wonderful time to invest in yourself. In view of that, here are five books that...
View ArticleBaby rescued from sewer drain
A remarkable story from China is making its way around the internet. A newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewer pipe after his parents flushed him down the toilet in an act of apparent infanticide....
View ArticleMore on Chinese sewer baby
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is reporting that the mother of the child was the woman who alerted authorities to the situation. She was present during the entire period of the rescue, but...
View ArticleAre there really two marriages? (Part Two)
In his brief anthology of blog posts entitled, There are Two Marriages: A Manifesto on Marriage (2011), Tony Jones argues that the church ought to seek the strict separation of what he calls “legal...
View ArticleThe Dawkins Pedophilia Brouhaha
As a general rule, it is true that it is futile to judge our ancestors by our current standards, however I'm not sure I'd say that Dawkins childhood was really in another "era." And while the sort of...
View ArticleMaking a life or making a living?
Imagine sitting down with a financial planner and in addition to totaling your bank accounts and mapping your investments, you also mapped your significant relationships and explored your relationship...
View ArticleThe loneliness epidemic
he rate of loneliness in the U.S. has doubled in the past 30 years, says John T. Cacioppo, a psychologist and director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago,...
View ArticleFive family trends that will blow your mind
Five trends discussed in the article caught me by surprise and I think pose particular challenges for evangelical Christianity. Each of them is related to the size and/or composition of the family.
View ArticleA Hindu monk and a Baptist preacher got married
About one in four Americans (27%) is intentionally sharing their married life with someone whose religious belief system is different from their own.[1] If difference within traditions like...
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