faith
January 23, 2021
Listen to B.B. King’s “Why I Sing the Blues.” This time, really listen: his soulful singing, Lucille’s crying. They belie the lyrics.
November 23, 2020
“Tell me,” Albert Camus’ Clamence asks, “doesn’t shame sting a little?”
October 31, 2020
Dwight Moody, the great revivalist, appreciated fire and brimstone. He knew nothing better, he said, than the notion “that Our Lord is coming again” to “take the men of this world out of their stocks and bonds.” As a preacher, he knew it worked, that it moved souls.
May 14, 2020
Making readers like me of George Orwell or Yevgeny Zamyatin highly uncomfortable, a San Diego company has developed a technology to monitor social distance. Already in use in some places, it’s called Active Distance Alert and Monitoring, or ADAM, eerily, for short. The technology maps signals emitted by phones, so that crowded areas like grocery stores […]
October 9, 2020
“My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?” (Matt. 22:12) Such is the parable’s critical question, the critical question for those to whom Jesus first spoke, the critical question for us.
October 15, 2020
They were trying to trick Jesus, get him in trouble with the Romans. That’s what’s behind Jesus’ comments on taxes, on rendering unto Caesar what’s his. Before we exploit his words for some preconceived economics or politics, we should understand context, what he may have really meant.
August 7, 2022
Let’s review what we’ve heard these past few weeks. Let’s review what Jesus said.