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The Pulpit, the Prophet, and Politics
In a bit of disappointing news, a bunch of preachers are once again going to endorse candidates from the pulpit. Even more disappointing to me is one is from my own denomination. When we, as pastors, step up to endorse candidates from a pulpit we are forfeiting our prophetic voice in the community. We are choosing to play politics rather…
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Acting Christian?
This interview with Richard Mouw is well worth your time. Some good thoughts from a Christian statesman. He is not afraid to speak true things in a somewhat “liberal” context. Other links on the “On Being” site are incredibly interesting. Albert Mohler’s thoughts on a homosexual’s suicide is an incredibly interesting read. One thought struck me: What if Tyler Clementi…
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The Trip to Alabama
Over the past week I’ve been on the road to Alabama, in Alabama, and coming back from Alabama as we celebrated our oldest son’s wedding. On the road down I had my two other sons (Terri had already flown to Alabama) and I picked up my parents in Kansas. We then drove two days to Alabama. That part of the…
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Wedding Slide Show
These are just some shots we snapped. The professional ones will come later!
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The Wedding
Tomorrow I have the privilege of performing the wedding for my oldest son. I will attempt to do so without crying all the way through the ceremony. It was last week, I’m sure, that my wife and I looked down at this new infant laying between us and thought, “How could we have so much love for one human being?”…
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The farther south you go…
Dateline: Just outside Memphis, TN. A couple of things are clear the farther south you go. 1. You can cruise the FM radio in search of music and get any kind of music you want… as long as it’s country. 2. What passes for coffee is amazingly open to interpretation. 3. There is nothing… I mean nothing… like real Southern…
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Convictions
I’ve posted this before, but saw it again on another blog. It’s so worth repeating!
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Healthcare (non)Reform
This is yet another gripe on healthcare (non)reform. Let us review so I can properly tick off my conservative AND liberal friends: 1. I am not for repealing healthcare reform back to what we have. What have is lousy. If you need examples, I am a living one. So are other members of my family. Don’t get me started! 😉…
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Wedding Bells
The past couple of weeks have been horrendously busy. The next week takes it to a whole new level, but it’s worth it. My oldest son, Joshua, is getting married on October 9. He met his fiance, Lisa, at school in Alabama. Joshua has always been in a hurry, so it’s not much of a surprise to me he’s getting…
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Is the Church Useful?
Has the Church outlasted its usefulness? Is it now up to individual faith, or some “community” interpretation? Bloesch tackles it head on. His observation is that postmodern theology questions the infallibility of the gospel itself. Creeds aren’t useful to identify faith definitively. Since there is no “infallible” interpretation, it doesn’t do much good to pay attention to creeds. Using Karl…
