Purpose.
Intent.
Virtue.
The Good Times Are Now
It’s easy to miss the miracles and blessings. Don’t. I was chatting with a friend earlier today about my recovery from my appendectomy, and they said, “Imagine how bad it would be without modern medicine.” I chuckled painfully and replied, “Without modern medicine I’d be dead. Twice over. Once ten years ago when my gall…
Religion Comes in Many Forms
Studies show that church attendance is declining. Most headlines say, “Americans Are Becoming Less Religious,” but that’s not precisely true. Instead, Americans are increasingly redirecting their religious zeal and ardor elsewhere: For some its sports, which is relatively harmless to everyone except themselves. For many others, their religious faith and zeal is redirected to political…
The Dissatisfied American
I subscribed to “The Week Junior,” a weekly newspaper for kids to give my six-year-old son something to read this summer, and give him the opportunity to learn about the broader world. Funny enough, the first issue included a study that confirmed something I’d anecdotally observed through my life abroad: People in impoverished and even…
Memorial Day
In the course of our nation’s wars, the United States of America has lost 1,354,664 men and women to combat or related causes. This weekend we remember them and honor their sacrifice. Their country asked and they answered, giving all they were and would ever be on this earth. May we ever be the kind…
Excellence is a Christian Duty
Christians sometimes demonstrate a bad habit: Too often, we contort our theology to avoid the work it takes to be excellent at the responsibilities God assigned us to advance His kingdom.
A Good and Terrible Friday
This Friday we celebrate a young man who felt more fear, and suffered more greatly than any man has done before or since. Through the most courageous act in the history of the world He showed us the full measure of love, all because He’d rather die than live without us.
Contrarianism=/=Critical Thinking
Contrarianism is a lazy and selfish habit that seeks to align truth and right with ourselves. Critical thinking is an act of humility performed to ensure we align ourselves with truth and right.
What Are We Even Doing?!?
Over the last week I’ve become increasingly mystified and bewildered about some of the pants-on-head insanity of the takes I’m seeing about how terrible and awful Ukraine and Zelenskyy are and how upright and blameless the sweet and noble Russian Federation and Putin are in the current conflict. I don’t know what’s going on, but…
Smug Know-it-alls Abound
Be Less Confident. Say Less. Say Nothing, Even.
Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
Christian social media is a weird place, where there’s a lot of people that seem to believe that dunking on other believers is their spiritual gift. Straight up heresy deviating from the Nicene Creed needs to be called out. That said, social media has produced the same phenomenon we see in virtually every other subculture…
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