You’re all familiar with how political cartoonists create caricatures of our presidents. Caricatures have a way of emphasizing the part and thereby obscuring the whole. For example, in the hands of political cartoonists, Richard Nixon became little more than a nose with a face attached to it: Jimmy Carter was reduced to the sum of Read the full article…
A friend and I have been reading the book of Ephesians together. For over a year. We go down a lot of rabbit trails during our time together, but when we zero in on Ephesians, the rewards are rich indeed. Spending that much time on that short a book, however, also raises some questions. In Read the full article…
Don’t most of us go through a phase of wanting to be someone else when we grow up? Or at least just like someone else when we grow up. Sometimes they are called role models and other times they are inspirations. Whatever you call them, here are five different men who, at different stages of Read the full article…
A couple of 22-year-old kids got married on a 100 degree day in a steaming gothic cathedral located in the center of a college campus in New Jersey. We didn’t know anything about anything. Sometimes, we still don’t. But every once in awhile, we do. Maybe that’s why we can look forward to the next thirty.
Jesus said what? Well, he said all kinds of things. Many of them comforting, like “my yoke is easy and my burden is light” and “I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” But other times, what Jesus said was . . . well . . . perplexing. Confusing. The Read the full article…
