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November 2012

November 28, 2012

Forget your legacy, just do the right thing

My wife and I spent part of Tuesday in Atlanta with Alveda King, the daughter...

November 26, 2012

Don’t ask God for justice

When we are wronged, do we ask God for justice? Maybe we should reconsider that...

November 11, 2012

We are all Protestants now

"[D]o nothing apart from the bishop. . . ." -- Ignatius of Antioch, Magnesians 7...

September 2012

September 11, 2012

What if we dumped Rand for Röpke?

After addressing Ayn Rand's anti-Christian philosophy, I think it's important to propose an alternative. This...

September 08, 2012

Ayn Rand, antichrist

"[A]s you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come." --1...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

What Pat Robertson gets wrong about adoption

When a woman named Susan wrote the 700 Club looking for answers, she surely wasn't...

August 16, 2012

The only solution to violence

After the shootings at the Aurora movie theater, the Milwaukee Sikh temple, and now Family...

July 2012

July 04, 2012

America needs prophets

The intense fight over Obamacare's HHS mandate highlights a real disdain for religion in public...

July 03, 2012

The blessing and curse of liberty

As we celebrate our nation's Independence, some then-and-now is in order. On July 4, 1793,...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

Praying for grace instead of judging others

What if instead of judging others, we saw their failings as our own? Some years...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Tebow and the pay-for-proof-of-sex stunt

You know the song that runs, "Catch a falling star and put it in your...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

The gangster, the cardinal, and us

In You've got Mail, Tom Hanks's character says that all of life's questions can be...

November 2011

November 16, 2011

Christian love’s bastard child

If you follow the conversations and events of our day, it's clear that our contemporary...

November 10, 2011

Defending absolutes

In our culture today, to believe in -- much less confess and defend -- absolutes...

November 09, 2011

The cult of agreeableness

Joel Osteen's disturbing inability to say that Mormonism is something other than Christian reflects a...

August 2011

August 11, 2011

Love and bear it

To grin and bear something means to tolerate it, put on a happy face and...

July 2011

July 25, 2011

Christians making a difference

Whether it's the political activism of the eighties and nineties or the social activism of...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

Where real influence lies

North American evangelical leaders are reporting a decline in influence, according to a recent survey...

January 2011

January 24, 2011

Steve Jobs and the false hope of our time

Two events happened last Monday that stand juxtaposed for me: Steve Jobs announced that he...

January 05, 2011

Spreading the atmosphere of heaven

How powerful are your thoughts? For better or worse, they are affecting every relationship you...

December 2010

December 31, 2010

A model for real social justice

A rich young ruler comes to Christ and asks what it takes to inherit eternal...

October 2010

October 11, 2010

Put not your trust in princes (or politicians)

As we get closer to the upcoming elections and hear the many promises tumbling from...

September 2010

September 24, 2010

Orphans and the heart of God

As many readers here know, Megan and I are adopting. It’s been an interest and...

September 01, 2010

Passport to adoption

On Monday I applied for my passport. I’ve traveled throughout the lower forty-eight, been to...

August 2010

August 13, 2010

The discarded difference

In his book The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis explains how the medieval worldview came to...

July 2010

July 12, 2010

Forgetting ourselves

To know who you are, you have to know from where you came. As philosopher...

June 2010

June 28, 2010

No ideas in a vacuum

Ideas don’t exist in a vacuum. I was reminded of this while flipping through George...

September 2009

September 22, 2009

The Search for God and Guinness

Arthur Guinness wasn’t fooling around. He was mad as a hornet and wielding a pickaxe....

September 01, 2009

7 reasons to appreciate history

History is the story of God’s past providence in the lives of people. This is...

March 2009

March 12, 2009

More customers, fewer consumers

To succeed in business you need to “meet the needs of consumers,” right? It’s so...