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David Naugle’s new book, Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness, is a delightful series of reflections on a Christian understanding of happiness. I like his theme of balance and I wonder if some want to converse about the struggle to find the balance or to live happily with the imbalance. Here’s…

I posted this in my monthly post at Out of Ur blog. I think I was in college when I first saw that title of a magazine that brazenly called itself SELF and it was so bold it could have been called SELF!  Nurtured in a theology that drew its juices from the Bible and…

Song by Elvis Presley? Dare I ask what is his greatest song ever? Got any stories to tell about his songs? Or, anyone ever attend one of his concerts? When Kris and I were in college (and married) we would stay up late at night to watch Elvis movies. Loved them. My favorite: “Return to…

I’ve been asked and given permission to publish this week a series of chapters from the new A Faith and Culture Devotional: Daily Readings on Art, Science, and Life . Literature: Augustine’s City of God: Two Cities, Two Loves By William Edgar, ThD, professor of cultural apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary, and author of Reasons of…

Genesis 3 is one of the cornerstone passages of the Bible.  Bill Arnold in his commentary on Genesis reflects that Gen 3 starts a new subject and introduces a new character, the serpent or snake.  The significance and identity of the snake has been a subject of much reflection through the years. The picture to…

We are doing a series now on the fantastic book called Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled–and More Miserable Than Ever Before. The second chp digs deeper than the first. Two points before we get going: first, this could be the most difficult of chps for iGens and, second, she…

I’ve formed a new group at Facebook and invite you to join: The Society to Return to Pre-Steroid Home Run Leaders.

I’ve been asked and given permission to publish this week a series of chapters from the new A Faith and Culture Devotional: Daily Readings on Art, Science, and Life . Science: The Copernican Principle By Guillermo Gonzalez, PhD, associate professor of physics at Grove City College and a recognized expert on the astrophysical requirements for…

Ask any pastor who knows suffering and persecution first hand and he or she will tell you that what James turns to in James 1:13-15 is the rugged, pastoral, moral reality: 13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each…

We are doing a series now on the fantastic book called Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled–and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean Twenge. We continue with her chp that sketches how cultural shifts indicate that iGens don’t care about social approval. She deals with manners and politeness. “Most…
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