I’ve been thinking a lot about truth-telling lately. I’m working on a presentation for a preaching conference next month. I’ve titled the workshop “Preaching Towards

I have a deep love for Avalon, Barry Levinson’s autobiographical movie from 1990. According to Wikipedia (which means it must be true), Avalon cost $20

The New York Times has been, one suspects, doing very well these days through its Games/Puzzle division.  Of course for almost as long as the

I was surprised to see the book framed by Samuel 8. The people came to Samuel and said: Place a King over us, to guide

I always preach the same wedding sermon. I’m not sure if other pastors do this too. Honestly it feels a bit like cheating. But I

My English composition students have been revising their first, low-impact, warm-up essay assignment this week. We’re mostly working on organization and sentence style at this

How long ago? It was back in the days of the dropkick, a move designed to surprise the defense and turn what might have looked

Creation demands its wolves. I keep thinking this as I reflect on two, sort-of obscure anniversaries that surfaced recently. They’re both remembrances of extinctions. One

The three Abrahamic religions share the story of Jacob’s wonderful dream (Genesis 28). As Desmond Tutu tells it in his Children of God Storybook Bible,