The End Is Near!

SPOILER ALERT: If for some reason you don’t know how the movie Oz generally ends, don’t read on. I went to a vividly colorful, feel-good movie tonight — Oz, The Great and Powerful,… Read More →

What’s Wrong with Work?

In the first section of their book Every Good Endeavor, Tim Keller and Katherine Leary Alsdorf do a superb job of exploring what work was intended to be: a calling to other-focused service… Read More →

More Than Just a Job (Why Work Is Good Not Evil)

For too many people, their faith has little to do with their work.  Sure, they don’t allow their jobs to be an excuse for ruthlessness or immorality, but their faith doesn’t inform their… Read More →

Doing What We Want, Not What We Believe

What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies. (Thomas Cranmer, 16th Century) Today, I ran upon this quote from Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1533-56 and leader of the… Read More →

Taking the Bible As It Is, Not How We Want It

Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible, Chapter 6: Accepting Complexity and Ambiguity With a wondrous five-day break for Thanksgiving, I have finally been able to return to Christian Smith’s book on interpreting the… Read More →

Hiking the Bruce Trail: Epping to Wodehouse

In my quest to hike all of the Beaver Valley section of the Bruce Trail, I continued by journey on my most recent trip to Canada last week.  I picked up the trail… Read More →

So True!

I saw this saying recently and was struck immediately by how true it is.  Who doesn’t have a hard life?  Who doesn’t deal with some junk sometimes?  Everyone has something in their life… Read More →

Criticize by Creating

“I criticize by creating something beautiful.” (attributed to Michelangelo) I really like this quote, shared in a recent sermon by Evertt Huffard, dean of the Harding School of Theology, my alma mater.  In a… Read More →

Love is Dangerous

Thanks to Melanie for forwarding this wonderful quote that reminds us true love is risky business.  But is there any other way? “To love at all is to be vulnerable.  Love anything, and… Read More →

Jesus Is The Point

Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible, Chapter 5: The Christocentric Hermeneutical Key It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God.  The Bible, read in the right spirit, and… Read More →