Worship
Sin is what’s wrong with the world, most agree. What sin is most wrong is where most disagree. [...]
27 Jan 2011
Four hundred years ago this year, the Authorized Version of the King James Bible was printed.[...]
25 Dec 2010
Some Christians will get a Christmas gift this year that goes unnoticed by too many.[...]
29 Nov 2010
It’s a blessing. That’s the first and last thing to say about becoming a first-time grandfather, which happened to me a few weeks ago. But in between there’s quite a lot else that [...]
24 Jun 2010
Poet Mary Oliver is fond of three things. She is actually fond of many more than three things, if you read her poetry. Nature, for one. Grasshoppers, for another. This grasshopper [...]
01 Mar 2010
“The hinge of history turns on a heartbeat.” Roger Cohen of The New York Times turned that phrase to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in the fall of [...]
01 Dec 2009
But giving it up to God doesn’t mean throwing it up in the air; it means giving it away to the things God especially cares about. [...]
01 Nov 2009
They’re calling it the Divine Vine: overgrown Kudzu on a wire in a Raleigh, North Carolina park — 30 feet tall! It resembles Jesus from the back, his arms outstretched on the cross[...]
01 Oct 2009
What role do religious communities like church and synagogue play in nurturing this view? A role no others can play as well.
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01 Sep 2009
Reading for fun, cooking out and eating in, gardening, walking at the lake: These good-for-nothing activities amount to something nothing else can match. They revive our spirits an[...]
01 Aug 2009
You act out of good intentions and find that you are hurting people you had no thought of affecting.[...]
01 Jul 2009
Don’t ask me why I am trying this out on you, but maybe because it’s summer, and I think you’ll have time to think it through.[...]
01 Jun 2009
