Tag Archives: faith

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 politicalContinue reading “Religion Comes in Many Forms”

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 evenContinue reading “The Dissatisfied American”

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 subcultureContinue reading “Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing”

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. “And He withdrew fromContinue reading “A Good and Terrible Friday”

Merry Christmas!

I wish you all a merry Christmas, filled with love and laughter. “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 Today we believers celebrate the day when Jesus, the Lion of Judah, theContinue reading “Merry Christmas!”