A merry atheist Christmas to all
THIS IS NOT NORMAL. I’ll grant you that. But here’s what’s going on. After Monday’s post “Christians, chill out about Christmas,” I got to chat a bit with some atheists about their view of Christmas. Most folks who …
Dead Sea: fish-free zone
FISH UNLUCKY enough to land in the Dead Sea will—within moments—show why it’s called the Dead Sea. They’ll go belly up. At least four times saltier than the ocean—higher by some recent measurements—Dead Sea water is one-quarter mineral. That’s partly …
Christians, chill out about Christmas
WHY GET UPSET that the city outlaws nativity scenes on public property? Why complain about Wal-Mart greeters wishing us Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas? What’s the problem with public schools hosting Winter Festivals instead of Christmas …
Nephew on spin cycle
SOME KIDS come prewired with a little extra energy. Take the little boy of my niece. Dylan. He’s the grandson of my little sis. Which makes him the great-grandson of my mom. Mom takes care of Dylan during the day. He’s not yet old enough …
Thanking God for the kids, part 2
AN ODD COINCIDENCE? While I was typing my post for yesterday, reminiscing about my kids and thinking about how grateful I am that God put them on my path, to travel with me through my life, I got an email from a reader. His name is Wayne. Wayne …
Thanking God for the kids
I’VE BEEN THINKING about my kids lately. Daughter and son. They’re grown and gone from the home now. One’s married. The other has it on the calendar. I’ve worked out of a home office for my entire freelance writing career, for the past 18 years. I …
Thanking Dad for being my dad
DAD HAD BEEN FIGHTING non-Hodgkin’s lymphomia for 20 years when I got the call from Mom, 800 miles from where I lived in Kansas City. By the time I arrived at Akron General Medical Center the next afternoon, doctors concluded that a viral infection …
Fox News Christians, please turn the channel
I HAVE A FAVOR TO ASK of my fellow Christians. Could we please not watch Fox News so much? That channel doesn’t produce informed Christians. It produces misinformed, angry, intolerant Christians. We’ve already nailed that reputation. We don’t need …
When Jerusalem was 11 football fields
IT WAS A SMALL VILLAGE David captured: Jebus, which soon became the City of David and later Jerusalem. No more than 2,500 people lived on this 11-acre piece of ground—about the size of 11 football fields: roughly 200 yards (180 m) wide and 600 yards …
Kindle Fire HD and other free stuff
HERE’S THE FREE STUFF I PROMISED Please forgive this blatant promo, but I’m trying to give away some freebies that I hope some of you will actually enjoy. I mean come on, who wouldn’t want the Kindle? Here’s what you get for …
Friends: The ups and downs of having them
“Jonathan and David became close friends. Jonathan loved David just as he loved himself.” 1 Samuel 18:1 NIRV WOULDN’T IT BE NICE if that’s how friendship always worked. Here’s the sad fact of life: having a close friend …
Why Christians fight abortion, ignore the sick
I DON’T GET IT. In political discussions, especially about Obamacare, here’s a version of one of the arguments I hear over and over from many of my Christian friends: When God told us to help the poor, he didn’t intend for the government to impose …
