In 1942 C.S. Lewis published a series of fictional correspondences between two demons. The elder, Screwtape, advising his younger nephew, Wormwood on how to best tempt Christians. At the root of the book is the question, "What would the forces of Satan want for the lives of Christians that pull them away from God?" The …
Tim Kurkjian is a baseball writer who tells one of my favorite sports stories. Ed Farmer was a relief pitcher who was facing Wayne Gross in an at bat that ended with Gross hitting a home run off of Farmer. That should be where the story ends, as an altogether uninteresting moment that happens hundreds …
Continue reading SHOULD YOU STOP TELLING YOUR STORY AS A WAY OF GETTING JUSTICE?
It goes like this. A Scottish man is traveling in Ireland and gets lost so he walks into a pub at 10 am looking for directions. As he walks up to the bartender the guy sitting closest to him, an Irish man, falls off his stool because he is too drunk to sit at 10 …
The national anthem at NFL games is to this week as teething is to parents of young kids. Your baby doesn’t sleep at night: teething. Toddler screams every time you walk into a public setting: teething. Sixteen-year-old wrecks their first car: teething. No matter what the actual problem the blame resides with the kneelers or …
I pastor a small church, in a small urban neighborhood that no one would drive through unless you were trying to go there. There are times when it can feel like what is done simply doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things. I don’t think this is a unique feeling to pastoral work, as …
I know, what the world really needs is another take on the weekends events in Virginia. Too many people speak too frequently on too many things with too little information, why would I want to add to the deluge of suddenly informed opinions? A large part of me simply wants to sit this one out, …
Two years ago, I was working at Wheaton College, living on Wheaton’s campus, and attending Wheaton’s graduate school when the whole community erupted in a theological dispute that garnered national attention. Dr. Larycia Hawkins, a political science professor, made some theological claims, was put on administrative leave, and eventually the school and professor parted ways. …
Continue reading Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? Revisited
I like sports talk radio. If you want to take an axe to my IQ for that admission, I understand and frequently feel the same way. In the sports talk world, this time of year focuses a large amount of time on the NBA playoffs and since the Warriors are so good they seem to …
Confession is tricky thing. This is a personal contention that I don’t have any quantifiable evidence to back up so you will have to decide whether your experience matches up with mine: the modern evangelical Church stinks at confession. We just hate admitting that Christians have been wrong and we really need to get over …
Continue reading Active Confession: The Failure of the Church
Warm up your keyboard and a tall glass of moral outrage, let slip the dogs of war; it’s yet again time for a good old fashioned indignation competition. In a 24 second news cycle, it is hard to keep track of what we are angry about today, and quite truthfully righteous rage has become a …
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