Six words (and more) to remember
Likely, the six words I heard most often during my childhood were “Did you wash behind your ears?” But a close runner-up is “Be ye kind one to another.” The …
Recovering the LTC
In recent years I have written or spoken about them so often that in my scribbled notes or outlines they are abbreviated as simply LTC. What are they? The “life, …
Why do people love to hate?
Any of the senses can elicit a nostalgic response in me. The taste of something once enjoyed in childhood. A smell associated with a Sunday school classroom from decades past. …
When choosing sides
We have no choice but to choose sides. In the face of injustice, silence is not neutrality. However, there is great danger in claiming God is on one’s side. History’s …
Seeing and seeking life through a Jesus lens
The mission of the Jesus Worldview Initiative (JWI) — to articulate and advance the following of Jesus as the defining priority of the Christian faith — continues to be explored …
Knock-off Christianity
Many professing Christians today affirm a faith that downplays, dismisses or domesticates Jesus. But they don’t want to see or hear that. They prefer ideologies — often labeled “biblical worldview” …
Who do they think I am?
The personalized advertising Facebook chooses can be baffling. Some ads have me wondering what I wrote, said or searched for online. What in my particular “al-gore-rhythm” concluded that bamboo textile …
How much Jesus is too much Jesus?
For some Americanized Christians a dead Jesus is apparently enough Jesus. For example, a Christian university in California has an entire web page dedicated to unfolding their prescription of a …
Why are Americanized Christians so easily led astray?
Day after day it gets more confounding and exasperating to watch so many white Americanized Christians cast their lots with that which is so clearly in contrast to the life, …
Yellowstone, Christians and trademarks
Names of national parks in the U.S. are not trademarked. Unlike universities that make billions putting their names and logos on everything humanly possible, the park names can go on …