Growing Into Our Married Name
(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…
God’s Love Goes Nuclear
(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…
Caesar’s Wasteland is a Losing Gamble
(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…
Praying Into Thin Air
(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…
The Battle to End Our Wars
(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…
Why Do We Worship Monstrous gods?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” This quote opens the movie “Oppenheimer.” It offers…
Finding God between Life’s Ticks and Tocks
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A little movie called “The Hiding Place” was released for a limited run in the theaters last month. This stage-to-screen production of a book of the same name by Corrie…
Vengeance is Nobody’s
The Arts have plagiarized the verse “Vengeance is Mine” since it first appeared in the Bible. In cinema alone, between 1912 and 2021, it’s been used as a movie title more than a dozen times. Japanese, German, Italian, Hindi and…
“To be is to do” or “To do is to be”?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) That headline represents a debate between students of various philosophers. Who’s right? Depends. The best teachers will tell you that any of us is stronger living as a verb than…
Abbott & Costello Meet God
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) To professional comedians, one of the greatest pieces of comic material ever written is considered more than a skit. Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First” is deemed a masterpiece of…