The Editorial Page

The Letters to the Editor section of the newspaper was longer today than usual.  Counting the editorial cartoon the letters occupied a full half of the “Perspective” page.  Eight letters comprise what I like to think of as the therapy section of the paper.
One screams out, “You really don’t get it do you?” as if [...]

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Fake Friendship

We became friends because we were colleagues in the same group.  It was a bunch of pastors from the same area of the state.  We got together once a month for food and conversation and enjoyed the professional and collegial stimulation.
He was pastor for a church that eventually had some internal problems, and the church [...]

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Don’t go in the doghouse!

Christmas is just around the corner. Time for getting the right gift for your honey is running short. I just found this helpful video that I recommend all men watch before going to the mall. It could save you from going into the doghouse.

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“It’s the economy, stupid!”

During Bill Clinton’s campaign, his campaign strategist, James Carville, coined the phrase, “the economy, stupid,” as a way to refocus voters’ attention and to say that George H.W. Bush had not adequately addressed the economy.  The phrase was meant for an internal audience of campaign workers, but it became widely used.
All you have to do [...]

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Giving People a Chance

I’ve been reading a very intriguing book called Wikinomics.  The premise of the book is that the way business and creativity is practiced on the Internet is transforming brick and mortar business as well.

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Networks

Several months ago, maybe even a year, a guy e-mailed me and asked to have coffee.  He just wanted to find out more about LifeSpring.  The visit was pleasant.
We got together for coffee a couple more times, and then he moved back east.  It was a short relationship, although it has continued via e-mail and [...]

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God at work…

It’s easy to become a whiner.  Life gets hard.  Challenges arise.  Obstacles interfere.  “God, where are you?  Why aren’t you making my life easier?”
At those times it is helpful to hear about how others negotiate trying times.  People like Nick Vujicic in this video put life in perspective and eliminate the whining.  Watch this and [...]

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Sunday’s coming.

It’s Saturday as I write this.  Tomorrow is Easter.  All day long I’ve been thinking about Tony Campolo’s now famous sermon about the resurrection.  I recommend it.  Listen to it at this link:  Sunday’s Coming.

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Part of the Problem

Brian McLaren included a link to a Bread for the World video that is poignant and convicting.  I’ve attached it below because I think it identifies a too common belief that organizations, not individuals, are responsible for bringing change to the world.  The same abdication of responsibility can be seen at election time when a [...]

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January Adventure – 1

I looked at the notice in a summer Christian Century.  Walter Brueggemann and Barbara Brown Taylor were going to be speaking at at 3–day event in Georgia.  Brueggemann’s topic was Jeremiah, and Taylor’s was about spiritual practices.
I remember being intrigued by the opportunity.  They are both favorites of mine.  But the distance and time made it [...]

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