Faith & Inspiration | I am a fixer. I have a knack for seeing problems and coming to a
quick and ready solution. I enjoy puzzles and love an intellectual
challenge. It is the way my mind works. This is an asset at work
and a benefit in…
Homosexuality |
Last week I wrote about how Christians should respond to NBA player
Jason Collins coming out as gay. Later a young gay man challenged
me as to why Christians…
Homosexuality |
Jason Collins, though not a star, carries great social cachet as an
NBA player. Earlier this week he became the first active player to
openly come out as gay.
Faith & Inspiration |
Today is day two of the National Football League college draft, the
one event in the off-season that grants the greatest ray of hope to
struggling teams. In…
Sports |
It can feel strange, trite even, to turn on the TV and watch a
baseball game or go to an arena to see a hockey game after what
happened in Boston Monday. Do…
Faith & Inspiration |
So many of the lessons we learn and the tasks we attempt in life
are seemingly simple. Losing weight is just a matter of burning
more calories than we…
Religion |
Recently I was talking with a co-worker about the number of people
we know who left churches and claimed to have been “burned” by the
experience. Both of…
Faith & Inspiration |
Today is Good Friday. We call it “good” because we know how the
story ends—it is the doorstep to the salvation encountered on
Easter Sunday. But Good…
Sports |
March Madness, the NCAA’s 68-team college basketball tournament, is
the single greatest annual sporting event in America. The first two
full days of the…
Faith & Inspiration |
Shame is a powerful force, like an explosive. A person full of
shame is unpredictable, even dangerous to himself and others. He
feels sub-human, unworthy,
Sports |
Four dollars and a four-block walk. That’s all it took for me to go
a Minnesota Twins baseball game growing up. I’d buy a general
admission ticket to the…
Faith & Inspiration |
“I want to get back there.” These words struck me as they came out
of the student’s mouth. Well, more than striking me, they stuck to
me. I couldn’t…
