Our Father in Heaven: What Kind of Father?
An excerpt from The Lord's Prayer: Drawing Heaven and Earth Together. My father was a quiet man. Many times he would speak just a few...
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A Wideness in God's Mercy
Genesis 21:8-21 An excerpt from Second Class Scripture? The story of Abraham and Sarah begins near the end of Genesis 11. In the final...
Falling Backwards
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.(2)In the winter of 1981, the Salvation Army Canada and Bermuda Territory took a bold leap into the future with the announcement that it...
Pop Psychology Served with Pious Mush is Not Good Enough
The prophet Hosea had an urgent message for the people of Israel: the LORD had a bone to pick with Israel. “Swearing, lying, and...
Too Small a Thing
In an address to Catholic university professors in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI stated, "Education is integral to the mission of the Church to...
The Nail in the Coffin
The adjective "evangelical" to describe my Christian faith has never really fit me well. Like my father's 1970s polyester leisure suit...
We Should be Training Dogs and Educating People
One of the best decisions I ever made was to take a course in typing when I was in Grade 9. That was in the days of monster manual...
It Finally Happened...
It finally happened. For a number of years I have had students in my classes who are the children of students I had in class over the...
Whose Kingdom? Whose Power? Whose Glory?
I have been thinking a lot lately about the doxology with which the Lord's Prayer ends in Protestant traditions. "...for thine is the...
The End of the World as We Know It?- Conclusion
We all need some kind of hope. We need to be able to look to the future with something other than dread. While that is true especially...
The End of the World as We Know It? -- Part 3
The current COVID-19 pandemic is spawning predictions of the imminent return of Jesus. Some view this as the focus of Christian hope. ...
The End of the World as We Know It? -- Part 2
Speculation that the COVID-19 pandemic is the prelude to the end of the world as we know it is starting to percolate among some...
The End of the World as We Know It? -- Part 1
As normal life seems to be grinding to a halt in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, changes unimaginable just a couple of weeks ago are...
Nativity: Reflections on Matthew's Story of Jesus's Birth and Early Life
This new book is now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle e-book format. Matthew's story of the birth and early life of Jesus...
Jacob's Long Journey from Assertiveness to Submission
(Genesis 49:28-33; 50:15-20) Jacob was a man who wrestled throughout his life. From the very beginning of his story—even before the...
Seeking Shalom
The prophet Amos lived in the eighth century BC, a time when some Israelites lived in extreme affluence, while the vast majority lived in...
Prophet of Doom
Amos accused the people of Israel of meaningless worship. What can we learn from their mistakes? The prophet Amos, a contemporary of...
A different brand of evangelicalism
The term "evangelical" has become code for a rabid political and social agenda that builds on fear and has sold its Christian soul for...
John Wesley and the New Testament
When I was a graduate student my first serious exposure to John Wesley was in a directed readings course in which I was guided by a...
The Path to Genocide
Words matter. What we say and how we say it shapes us and can be used in harmful ways, leading us down a path toward actions that, in...
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