In ever-rarer moments, the cameras turn in our direction and the world gets a glimpse of us. The pope, being the pope,..
Child of the covenant, you have been sealed by the Holy Spirit in baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever.” These words..
The Defense Department maintains the numbers of those killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Enduring Freedom and in New Dawn and..
She talked about it in code. She would say things like, “You know, that time I spent at Camp Minnehaha.” Few knew..
It is a good practice to read widely and not always in genres with which one naturally resonates. That is why I pick..
Turn on the lights, I can’t hear you.” My little brother used to remind my mother of this on early winter mornings..
Capital “T” truth is out of fashion these days. I have been reading lately about the “new culture of learning” that details..
All hands on deck, all available personnel to the front, code blue or alert level red. In other words: Stop what you..
I am not a gardener, far from it. I do not have the patience nor the knowledge to make things grow. I..
As I write this on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, the results of Super Tuesday are in the books. Trump won – maybe..
Who cares, really, about Holy Week? Not many of my kids’ friends. Most of my children’s closest friends have no faith affiliation..
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster..
A few months ago you might remember reading an article written by long-time Outlook friend and writer, Earl Johnson, titled, “What’s right..
A little Catholic schooling goes a long way, particularly when the time spent there was during early, formative years. I spent first..
There are days I fantasize about it. Other days I dread the thought of it. Retirement. When deadlines loom and work stress..
I wanted my name in the book. I wanted his children to know that South Carolinians cared enough to come and pay..
The Presbyterian Church is in the news. Not due to a close, controversial vote, not due to issues of marriage or divestment..
Those who want to espouse security can go right ahead, but they can’t say that goal is a biblical one. Remember all..
One recent morning I drove my youngest to school, talk radio on as usual in the background. There were two stories that..
I have been re-reading a book by Alister McGrath on the history of Protestantism. McGrath’s “Christianity’s Dangerous Idea” has given me some..
In honor of our college guide issue, here is a list of 10 things I want the young adults in my life..
There are times when biblical images become all too real as they did in South Carolina in early October. “The basement is..
There were not infrequent times in ministry when I found myself overwhelmed with a kind of cosmic grief. It wasn’t depression —..
Our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conceptions of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional..
I have now been on the other side of the pulpit for six months. My overwhelming response to this new vantage point is..
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