(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The technologies of construction and destruction teach us about two kinds of strategic bombing. Constructive bombing uses explosives to move earth, rock, or other materials to prepare the ground not…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Many of us use an Advent-house calendar to prepare, day-by-day, for Christmas. Its 25 doors typically contain scripture readings or meditations to put us in the mind of God. But…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Sleek” is a double-edged sword of a word. It can be used as a backhanded compliment to say “You’re slick” (as a used-car salesperson). Or, it could be used to…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We’re all born with gifts. How we use them testifies to our character. No need for boasting, as Mom always told us. That’s what we do when we feel our…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This Sunday’s readings seem tailored to appeal to the selfish among and within us. We’d be wise not to read them that way. They seemingly dangle wisdom before our eyes…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) It seems impossible for us modern humans to live up to the meanings of our given names. But think how hard that must have been for the gospel writers. Matthew…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Love is not just a feeling. It powers our very being. It motivates us to ensure someone else’s good. Love is God in action, and it’s as reactive as a…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “What gives you the right to preach to me about God?” That may have been the thinking of the hackers who last month took down the Brothers in Christ website…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Life is like climbing a mountain. It’s an arduous experience, but it gets us to our goal. Our REAL challenge is deciding what that goal is. Is it to reach…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the LordHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are storedHe hath loosed the fateful lightning of…