Cross Purposes

I can't remember what book it was: some Christian best-seller the class had decided to study: and I admit I was a reluctant participant....

It always takes me a while to work through problems, to their root. This one has taken even longer than usual; but I may have reached some ...

On this day 150 years ago, the Civil War began when secessionists fired on a U.S. Army fort. When it was over, 25% of southern men were dea...

God's tests are always a chance: rather, a mandate: to test ourselves...whosoever will. His test this week is even clearer than usual i...

Earlier this week, while I was frantically trying to finish my work and leave for a meeting I was already late for, our lawyer-neighbor came...

I don't usually bother to be for or against politicians. It's a mindless substitute for thinking through political issues, or havi...

It's well-known that persecution makes the Church stronger. We don't currently perceive that the American Church is under persecuti...

I don't claim to know what is coming. I do know that increasingly I hear God speaking of judgement. Some I respect as devoted servants...

A word...more importantly, a concept...I'm increasingly hearing in "Christian conservatives' " discourse is "statism...

My state is voting today on rewording a state constitutional provision on "the right to bear arms." There is basically no opposit...