People you’d like to meet in heaven I think a book by this name was published a few years back, or maybe it was a movie. Regardless, I think about that question now and then, and perhaps we all do. When I read something that prompts me to consider this possibility, I get stuck on […]
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Why this useless murmuring? Why this tumult among nations, among peoples this useless murmuring? They arise, the kings of the earth, princes plot against the Lord and his Anointed. These are the first 4 lines of psalm 2, words I am sure I’ve read before but only today, on this first Sunday of Advent, do
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Cheap grace: sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But even a cursory reading of Diedrich Bonhoeffer reveals it’s itchy truth. Germany: the land of Luther, Wagner, Nietzche, Hitler, Rahner, and Ratzinger. The list combines the very noblest and the most bestial of the minds and hearts of man. And there was also a man called
Our battles are many. Strange title for an article? Perhaps, but fitting to my life both before and after I found faith. Years ago, I walked into a southwestern boutique store not far from where I lived in Houston, Texas, and saw a painting that seemed to dominate the store. The profiles of three Indians
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It only takes one It only takes one. If you write, then you are well aware that once we reach the final proof, the final edit, there comes that sense: it is done. Sure we know that we could continue perfecting the article, the post, the chapter or the book almost ad infinitum but then