It is never safe to keep God at a distance, for at a distance He judges sin, but up close He bears it

During the lectionary of the worship service this past Sunday I was inspired to write the following: Ancestors, and more immediately our parents are our root and source and our debt to them should be acknowledged. We should honor them,  because beyond being our biological root, and the primary influence of our socialization and development, [...]

“Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.” And to make this an appropriate Thanksgiving post, I want to give thanks to God for creating Brennan Manning who wrote The Ragamuffin Gospel in which the above quote is found.  

The following is an email I sent to my theology students for the Intro to Theology and Ethics class that I am teaching this semester. I sent this email because we just took a turn from C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity to a text titled, The Essentials of Christian Theology, edited by William Placher, which is [...]

I know it has been some time since I posted, and that I perhaps should atone for my silence by writing something a bit more substantial, but nonetheless I am only going to offer the following question…. If you could only read one gospel, one epistle, and one book from the Old Testament, what books [...]

So, how does one dress for this kind of forecast?

Leonard did not know about the bungee option regarding the descent into the Abyss of Perdition.

Five, two, five, as in five minutes, two minutes, five minutes, as in the first set of time increments for day one of a ten week plan to get a person off of a couch and prepare said person for a five kilometer run. The plan is called “Couch to 5k” and it is now [...]

The following is an adaptation of an email I sent to co-workers to persuade them to buy my daughter’s Girl Scout Cookies. I enjoyed writing it, and I thought it was entertaining enough to bring a smile to the faces of the masses who read my blog. ******* Blessed colleagues who are about to become [...]

I would never want to change how The Lord of Rings saga actually unfolded, and all that Frodo and his companions had to go through in order to bring peace to Middle Earth, but just the same, perhaps, as the following video demonstrates, there was a better way to defeat Sauron. *******