You can be sure that more people today know about the magazine, “Christianity Today,” than knew about it a week ago. In a December 19 editorial, Editor Mark Galli issued a call for President Trump to be replaced on the basis of moral failings, quoting the statement they made 20 years ago when the …
More Conversations That Matter. The name of my blog. I want to engage conversations about important things. Sometimes, that starts with a question, and I have one that has been stirring in me the last few days. This particular question takes us into some deep waters of heart motive, but it’s important for us …
At Noon last Friday, I broke into sobs. Deep, heaving, uncontrollable sobs. I’d read the story of how a 28-year old man took a camera, took a gun and then took the lives of 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. I’d watched interviews with survivors and a searching mom in shock, …
I’m white. Decidedly white. Which means that I can’t jump, or dance in rhythm, or learn a funky new handshake, to save my life. I grew up in a white bubble I never noticed, and I didn’t have an adult black friend for the first 40 years of my life. I’m still quite white, but …
As the Jussie Smollet story unfolds, there are no winners, only losers. God, in His grace, tried to prevent all of the losses with one short, but monumental instruction: “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” Don’t lie. But the particular lie God forbids is a public lie: courtroom perjury, a public …
The Bible’s Christmas narrative has a villain. An antagonist. A bad guy. And I’m not talking about the innkeeper. The bad guy is King Herod. The good guys are those wise men who traveled weeks to find Jesus. The good guys and the bad guy meet in Matthew, chapter 2: After Jesus was born …
Hi Roger. Please don’t freak out, but I am your 57-year old self, and I’d like to share some things I (we?) have learned about you and the black people around you that you barely notice. The good news here is that you’ll make it to your 57th birthday. The bad news is that you …
Skin of our skin, Bone of our bones, Now, skin and bones. Mysterious sick, Food that won’t stick; Must find some trick Doctors that pace, Fresh charts retrace, First world grace. New test might show, Heads that shake no, Still we don’t know. Waiting with tears, Pressing down fears, Months …
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States. The surprise winner was voted into office by 62,984,825 voters. (Wikipedia) Post election, people have been asking: Who were those voters who put him into office? Pollsters, pundits and pastors have suggested several answers: Evangelical Christians, disenfranchised …
(A Poem Dedicated to a Friend) The sidewalk slaps ‘neath fraying sneaks As spindle legs press on; She’s on the way to somewhere else, A futile search for home. And windblown hair that begs for soap Wraps odd her tired face Whose weary eyes scan anxiously For freedom more than place. She …