There’s a profound sense in which Bonhoeffer’s return to Germany becomes a powerful and rich example of the very thing we celebrate at...

climber or poser? As I travelled from Munich to Friedrichschaffen on the train yesterday, I felt a little out of place because the truth...

I wake this morning intending to skip rope in the backyard forest, but as I sip my morning coffee, the sunrise is too inviting for such...

1. I like that Hollywood portrait a southern Christian Republican family in a positive light.  I’ve grown accustomed to the mockery of...

In case you liked yesterday’s video… #life #Reviews

Remember that I’m musing here, not preaching. The purpose of this blog, at least some of the time, is simply to incite discussion. ...

Thankfully, we live with the confidence that in just a few short weeks the darkness, which has seemingly been getting the upper hand,...

As I look back on both the opening up of Eastern Europe, there are lessons to be learned: 1. Faith spoke to oppression then – it had...

The room from which I’m writing right now in Canada looks south.  The beauty out the bay window is more than stunning; the beauty almost...

Neat systems bother me.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s Calvinism or Arminianism, fundamentalism or liberalism, Catholicism or...

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...

The Bible: Maybe the most dangerous idol? In Exodus 20, the very first of God’s ten commandments is His declaration that we must “have...

Are we there yet? How do you find music you like? Here’s one way it happens for me… I purchased a compilation CD recently because I’d...

Obama wins the prize...but why “God has placed eternity in the hearts of men…”  is one of those mysterious verses in the Bible that is...

However, rather than tackle the whole “socialist, church bells, prayer day, gun control” culture, I’d like to just talk about the...

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