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BLOG 4.24.16. IS ANYONE ASKING YOU A REASON FOR YOUR HOPE? Once upon a time (several decades ago) there were a group of us, who were more mission-minded Protestants, who had been invited by some members of the Vatican staff … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/20/16. I VOTE FOR WHATEVER IS TRUE, HONORABLE, JUST, PURE, LOVELY, COMMENDABLE, … AND EXCELLENT. AM I BEING NAÏVE? Full disclosure: I am a news junkie, and a political junkie. But once in a while I get ‘OD’ed on … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/17/2016. “ASLAN IS NOT A SAFE LION” In C. S. Lewis’ wonderful children’s stories: The Chronicles of Narnia, the Christ-figure is the awesome lion Aslan. When the Pevensie children are first introduced to the other world of Narnia, they … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/13/2016. LONELINESS: FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN TO iPHONES As an octogenarian I am continually fascinated, as I sit several times a week in my favorite coffee shop, at the proliferation of information age equipment in operation there. I’m … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/10/16. THE NIGHTMARE OF HAVING NO HOPE Interviewer Charlie Rose asked Secretary of State John Kerry what he thought the greatest threat to the United States might be, was it ISIL? Kerry’s surprising response (to me) was that it … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/6/16. RECONCEIVING (AND MAYBE REINVENTING) WHO WE ARE AS CHRISTIANS AND AS NEIGHBORS. Mercy! A guy can have all kinds of sympathy for the confusion that the folk in our North American society must have when the media, and … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/3/2016. THE PRESENCE OF THE CHURCH: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS We were sitting over brunch last week, and the lawyer-friend at whose house we were meeting asked me the question: What do you think the role of the church is … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/30/16. THE BEAST AND THE LAMB ARE STILL WITH US, ALAS! Georgia’s governor, Nathan Deal, has just won plaudits from the editors of the New York Times and many others for vetoing the so-called Religious Liberty Bill passed by … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/27/16. GOD’S NEW CREATION PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGERS, NOT COMPLAINERS. CREATIVE NOT WHINERS, OK? I see myself as a teaching-shepherd of God’s people, and my calling as that of equipping those people to be demonstrations of the whole demeanor and … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/23/16. DO WE HAVE SOMETHING TO LEARN FROM OTHERS? I received an interesting number of visitors to my last blog on living realistically and radically as God’s children of light right here in this present scene, what with all … Continue reading →