“Sodomy Is a Crime Against God and Nature.” So declares a church sign that my wife drives past each morning on her way to work.

DECEMBER 2008: INSIDE OUT by Scott Hoezee In the desert prepare the way for the LORD. Isaiah 40:3a My neighbor did it again. The weekend

When Tim Russert died suddenly in June, I felt like I had lost a friend. Millions of people felt that way, and it’s not that

Scott Hoezee In my line of work, I think about preaching seven days a week, and for hours on end at that. After a while,

We begin with strangers. Seminaries and church communions vary in terms of how they prepare young men and young women to become preachers, but in

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. Luke

Scott Hoezee One of the most mind-boggling spectacles I’ve ever seen is a short science movie titled “Powers of Ten.” Many of us no doubt

FEBRUARY 2007: AS WE SEE IT by Scott Hoezee In a lecture delivered in the late 1980s, novelist Tom Wolfe noted that the surreal and

Scott Hoezee In the beginning, a few Renaissance geniuses used belief in God as the impetus to launch an investigation of the universe. Their development