Time is a faithful servant but a fearsome master. Dr. Seuss illustrates this in his delightful book, Oh, The Places You Go. It’s a story about life’s journey, which doesn’t always take you to the places you want to go—like “The Waiting Place,” where people are Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for [...]
What is marriage? This seemingly straightforward question is proving difficult to answer these days. But it’s the question the Supreme Court will have to wrestle with and answer as it considers 1996 The Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as being between one man and one woman, and California’s Proposition 8, which amended the [...]
Words have meaning. And so does the absence of words . . . the white space between words. This is especially true when the white space is created by deleting words. The 2012 Democratic National Convention convened this week under a controversy. Two words that were formerly imbedded into the party platform were struck from [...]
There’s a sickness in the soul of America. So says Kurt Cameron, of 1980s “Family Matters” fame, in his new movie Monumental. Citing examples of cultural and political sickness—increases of divorce, teen pregnancy, crime, taxes, and national debt—Cameron asks what we can do to heal our nation. The answer he discovered is found in history—particularly [...]
Well, the 2012 political season is fully upon us. For those of us who are politically informed and active, and are followers of Jesus Christ, it might be helpful if we had a few guidelines to give us perspective as we watch, engage, and vote this year—a sort of Ten Commands for Political Christians, if [...]
