The Perfumed Handkerchiefs of Mothers
5-6-13 It is sweet to look ahead to Mother’s Day by looking back, and thinking about, motherhood. Of all the artificial, consumerist-induced “holidays,” this might be the “holi-est,” because a Mother,...
View ArticleParadise Lost: Notes from the Post-Christian Front
5-13-13 “To sacrifice what you are, and to live without belief: that is a fate more terrible than dying.” So declared Joan of Arc. “One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it.”...
View ArticleThe “Daddy Plan” – Two Months or 100 Years?
6-17-13 Thinking about Father’s Day, there is someone in the news who, perversely, might be deemed “Father of The Year.” Not that he is a great role model, or has been honored by his children. Someone...
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7-7-13 The man was an “average believer,” or maybe an average non-believer. A lot of people find themselves in spiritual comfort-zones in Post-Christian societies. When we are told that we are born as...
View ArticleOur Telescopes, God’s Microscope
8-5-13 A guest message by one of my great friends and a most insightful and sensitive writer, Leah C. Morgan: I’ve never been acquainted with stress. People throw the claim around, and plenty act like...
View ArticleDaddies’ Little Girls
8-19-13 I attended a local theater production of “Fiddler on the Roof” this week. The legendary musical and the Yiddish story that inspired it concern themselves with assimilation, and, of course,...
View ArticleThe Hours Drag, the Years Fly
8-26-13 It is a familiar scene this time of year. Children go off to school, some walking up the steps of the yellow school bus, some into the front doors of the school where you drop them off, some...
View ArticleThe God Proposition
9-16-13 Either God exists, or He doesn’t. The question this statement poses, among uncountable other speculative, philosophical, ontological, and even religious questions, is THE most basic and most...
View ArticleTheme Songs Of the Hopeful
9-23-13 A theme song of cynics – there are many; many cynics and many are their themes – is the famous sentiment written by Shakespeare: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred...
View ArticleWe CAN Go Home Again
10-7-13 Many popular sayings that are regarded as embodying folk wisdom are, in fact, as crumbly as the fortune cookies where they should stay. I have always been struck by how almost every handy,...
View ArticleA Wedding Is a Happy Day. A Marriage Is a Joyous Life.
10-14-13 I’m going to conduct a little tour today. To a place called Beulah Land. It is a place of relationship, though not actual geography, mentioned in the Bible. It appears in John Bunyan’s “The...
View ArticleWhen You Don’t Know What To Say To God
10-21-13 My father, US Army Air Force captain, was involved in the D-Day invasion. He used to say that you could always tell the true military heroes at get-togethers: they were the ones who listened...
View ArticleThe Profound Promise of Tadpoles and Caterpillars
11-18-13 The late Malcolm Muggeridge was an iconic figure in British life and English letters. An essayist and critic, soldier and spy, journalist and satirist – he served as editor of Punch, the...
View ArticleThe Highway to Heaven
2-3-14 I recently have re-read “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan (or re-re-re-read, actually forgetting the number of times I have read it). It is the most remarkable of books, once held to be...
View ArticleBroken Things
2-10-14 All through the Bible are examples of gifts, sacrifices, and responses that God’s children lay before Him. Tithes, ten per cent of income. First fruits. Rams without blemish. Spotless sheep....
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When Will Life Ever Make Sense?
3-3-14 “Farther along we’ll know more about it, Farther along we’ll understand why; Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine, We’ll understand it, all by and by.” We have many hymns of faith to...
View ArticleThe “Good News” Was Good… But Not New
4-21-14 In a generation after the first Easter, Christianity had spread to the far corners of the known world. There were churches in the future lands of England and Ireland; after a century, church...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Days of Jesus
4-28-14 The last verse of the last gospel’s last chapter (John 21:25) tells us, “Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books...
View ArticleThe Judgment None Can Escape
5-5-14 Judgment Day. The stuff of legends, and lessons, and sermons. Depicted in art from ancient stained-glass windows to the steel engravings of Bibles and tracts, to cartoons of God (or maybe St...
View ArticleHow God Keeps Us On Our Toes
7-21-14 Christians ought to concede one of the arguments of scoffers. The Bible CAN BE, and sometimes IS, ambiguous. Not on matters of essential doctrine, of course. There enough unambiguous words from...
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