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Why we need faith communities thriving in our public life
Tish Harrison Warren has a great interview with a Muslim who makes the case for religious institutions to thrive in our public life.
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Rules of Kingdom Life
I will be heading out on a personal retreat this week and try to move away from all the electronic tethers that I use to choke me… and then I blame Mark Zuckerberg… But I digress.
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The love of the game
I wrote on the heartbreak of baseball in the last post. My main heartbreak has been the realization that the time I grew up with is just a bad organization. My second heartbreak is I am far removed from a Major League team where I live now and it’s just hard to keep up.
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The heartbreak of baseball
Since moving to the South where I am hours away from Major League Baseball and the dominant culture here is SEC football, it’s been hard to keep up with the sport I deeply love. Baseball puts most people I know to sleep and some of you are already yawning. Yet, here I go again.
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Living in Babylon — the lessons of Babylon
Moving through Daniel 4 and 5 with two very different kings and their responses to God’s word to them I find one central truth: No matter the king, or the country, or the empire, or the system of government… NOTHING IS “TOO BIG TO FAIL” Daniel, a captive from a conquered country, served a God who would deal with Babylon…
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Living in Babylon — the test of love
Every week in worship we are reminded of what is at the core of following Christ: to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. To love our neighbor as ourself.
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Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July
July 5, 1852: Frederick Douglass—a former slave turned abolitionist leader—delivers a speech to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York. Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men too—great enough to give fame to a great age. It…
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The greater fool
I love the old show “The Newsroom.” It is about journalism and people who want to do good journalism, and often fail badly at it. They still try. They still risk. It’s a favorite show I love rewatching from time to Tim. At the end of season one is an episode called The Greater Fool. It’s explained a bit in…
