With fears of “the other” on the rise, a look at Jesus life, from beginning to end, is like a drink of fresh cold water in the midst of...

As Dennis Haack writes, “Right up to the medieval age, the church believed that fantasy creatures, sorcerers, ghouls, goblins, and ghosts...

Good morning God… I’m back in Seattle. I remember being in the thick of my time there – tired, hungry, annoyed by sweat and bugs and the...

There’s much to learn from those who lived well during those days, and as I read about Bonhoeffer, I’m struck by the degree to which his...

shoeless shoes, pondering the fresh health I’m enjoying in my running because I’ve been liberated from the belief that the foot needs...

sixty minutes offered a remarkable example of the power of vision.  This is worth watching! Gustavo Dudamel is the new Venezuelan...

It would be easy, for many of us, to just write a check on May 23rd, 50 days after Easter, and call it a success.  But success, in this...

In spite of all this, it was only today that I was really struck by the fact this guy wasn’t very careful about where he put his seeds....

1. They’ve pointed out the elephant in the room:  we don’t KNOW (in the same way we know that we’re reading a blog right now) the...

The normal run of the mill people though?  They seemed drawn to the man, which is baffling because they’re not generally drawn to his...

In a few minutes I’ll go to class and complete the studies in Genesis with students here, and then board the train for Augsburg, where...

My concern resides in our age old tendency to reshape the gospel so that it matches our own personal ideals and passions, with the result...

This November/December I’ll once again be spending some time in Germany and Austria, teaching at two different Bible Colleges.  During...

30 years and counting It’s an amazing time in history. On the one hand, we’re seeing movement on the part of same-sex couples to have...

Welcome… After blogging for years over at blogspot (where you can find all the old stuff about movies, sexuality, politics, faith, doubt,...