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

The challenge comes in the wake of these moments.  We wonder if there are next steps to take, wonder if what we did was real or...

“Bone Games” right now, about extreme sports and shamanism.  The author had one of those supernatural experiences that climbers sometimes...

“The Divine Commodity” right now, a book about how our consumer culture in the western world has affected church life.  It’s an important...

One of God's Best Inventions Psalm 104 is one of my favorite parts of the Bible because it poetically articulates what we enjoy hear in...

Having spent last week in at a conference in San Diego, I was struck by how cool it was to come to my room each afternoon and find that...

Good Sabbath...in the forest I pack the car early this morning, coughing after a fitful night’s sleep as the virus creates a dripping in...

I carry my metal water bottle with me everywhere, and the conference center at which I’m staying is offering Nestle’s bottled water in...

I turn on the radio and start fiddling with the AM little realizing what’s about to happen.  “Good afternoon!” says the familiar voice....

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...

we're all marching to our own drummers There’s a delightful little passage that I came across yesterday morning during my coffee with...

I’m getting ready to study the passage for this coming Sunday about the ten virgins, five of whom had oil in their lamps and five who...

We've Made Jesus in Our Image: Cool As we move into the thick of Holy Week, my morning reading today included this from Judas:  “what...

This past Sunday I spoke on servant leadership and how vital the principle is for our time.  I’d spent the few days before preaching...

Glenn Beck, the celebrated conservative commentator had some things to say over the past week or so about “social justice” and “economic...

David Brooks wrote a NY Times column last month in which he posited that the current economic crisis has been much harder on men then...

If you’re one of those “it’s all going to burn up anyway” Christians,  there’s a good chance you’ll be eating a big slab of meat tonight,...

This past Sunday I preached on ‘glorying in our tribulations’.  Starting on Monday, it’s been lab work on the same subject.  The...

Unfortunately, it’s not.  Have you seen the movies from the Youth Rallies during the reign of the Reich?  The singing and enthusiasm...

I’d like to spend a few words building the case for marriage, because this institution, like all institutions (it seems) is increasingly...