Winging It

I had a song stuck in my head the other day, and it really sunk in: "What language shall I borrow to thank Thee, dearest Friend, for th...

My brother is a lot smarter than I am. You can only imagine how my mom is squirming as she reads this considering how many times she had to ...

In an astounding passage in his letter to the church in Philippi, Paul writes, "I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content...

I know that most of us think of our founding fathers as Christians. The truth is that many of them were Deists. Deism was popular during the...

Genesis 11 has that quaint little story of the Tower of Babel. You remember the events. The people decided to build a tower to heaven so the...

I read the other day of a Christian who is "ashamed of my faith" . To be fair, it wasn't her faith of which she was ashamed, b...

I suppose I'm just a mix of absolute certainty and muddled confusion. Sometimes I am sure beyond a doubt that something is true and at o...

I'm puzzled. I'm trying to come up with a wise way to handle things, but I'm not that good. Maybe one of you homeschoolers can h...

Addiction. What is it? The dictionary says it is "the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psycholog...

This is likely my last in the hymnody series. For those of you who weren't particularly interest, it's good news. For those of you w...

Earlier I wrote about the Muslim who claimed that killing Westerners was simply part of the theology of Islam. Now there is this email that...

This whole thing gets very confusing to me. Too often, I suppose, I find that I lack the wisdom to solve all the world's problems. Go fi...

Ward Churchill has been fired . Who's that? He is a professor from the University of Colorado who, after the Sep. 11 attack, wrote an es...

Libby Purves has published a list of "30 Most influential religion blogs". The list includes blogs on Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, a...

I don't know how many of you have heard of AWANA . The name is an acronym for "Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" taken from 2 ...

My mother reads this blog. I don't know that it's all the time, but she comments with sufficient frequency via email to let me know ...

There are lots of themes in hymns. Look at the "Topical Index" of any hymnal and you'll find a lot of topics. I just wanted to...

How do you see yourself? (No, "In a mirror, of course" is not the kind of answer I am looking for.) There are some of us who see o...

Look around. It seems to be harder and harder to define "Christian" if you listen to the cacophony of voices that are using the sa...

I heard the report the other morning on the news. Some major food marketers have decided to establish limits on advertising to children. Co...