A survey of the Bible finds that whenever there’s a wholesale disruption to ‘normal life’, God can use it to call us back, not to the way...

We have a religious world and a real world...and I sometimes think we care more about our religious world than our real world

people in the Bible who met disorder with enough humility and curiosity to ask God what they should learn come out healthier on the far side

left to right: Martin, Director of Tauernhof, Richard, Charlie, board member of Tauernhof. “Stay a little longer” my friend Martin...

What does the pornography problem in the Bible belt, and the appalling lack of generosity among democrats have to do with a burnt/raw...

Behavior needs to match mission, right? They did it “according to the book”.  With too many passengers and not enough seats, they asked...

But what does “the land of the free” really mean? And in what sense are we free?  The questions weren’t political for me this year but...

By now, unless the shooting is personal, we Americans know the drill quite well.  Our president will stand up and talk about the need for...

I’m happy to offer a repost today of something offered earlier this summer during my sabbatical because it seems so very appropriate...

That’s because I live in a different world.  I live in a world where I know more and more people who are coming out of closet; they’re...

Failure isn’t really the main problem in this world.  There are remedies for failures, and often clear steps to take so that in the wake...

We’re waiting for the cable car that will haul us up to the Douglass Hut, the base from which we’ll be hiking over a couple of passes to...

It was supposed to be the Cascades… I spoke with a couple last week who lost their child to cancer at the age of six.  As we talked of...

My oldest daughter is a Seattle Pacific Alum and writes from Germany this morning as she ponders the tragic shootings here in Seattle and...

equal and opposite reaction.  Likely true in the world of matter, but this week evangelicals managed to prove that Newton’s law bears no...

And so begins a mini drama where Abraham’s wife is taken by force because of her beauty and offered to the harem of the highest leader in...

When the angel announced good news of great joy for all people, the angel opened the door for a feisty conversation about who’s in and...

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.  – Michael Porter There’s a forest in m Too many trees.  Too many buds on the vine. ...

“stoppage time.” I’ve been waiting, since moving back to the Pacific Northwest in 1984, for Vancouver’s Canucks to win their first-ever...

In my readings for the upcoming symposium of faith and science that I’m attending, I’ve discovered that the deeper one goes down the...