One of the treasures that I mined from Dad’s library is a leather-bound Common Book of Prayer, complete with hymnal.  My Dad was certainly a man of prayer, but he didn’t have a liturgical bent. I don’t know how he came by this beautiful edition, but he clearly didn’t use it. The binding was stiff [...]

Before the Left Behind book series was consuming the nation, there was Thief in the Night, a sinister and frightening movie venture into the popular mythology of the ‘end times.’ Back in the 70’s, large churches used to fill up their gymnasiums for screenings of this film and its sequels, and Christians were encouraged to [...]

I’ve started writing this post a number of times and each time I find myself struggling of the enormity of the subject matter. I don’t think that proof-texting my position is responsible or helpful. But on the other hand, this isn’t the venue for a detailed exegesis of all of the relevant passages in scripture [...]

Once in awhile something comes along that is truly appalling. Today’s rant is inspired by a full-page magazine ad for Holman Bible Outreach International. The middle third of the page is a photograph of an obviously impoverished, partially clothed, very young child, standing barefoot in a gutter, poking at the garbage on the ground with [...]

This weekend my husband Josh was going through the paper and came across a Walmart Christmas catalog insert. It came with a ready-made wish list for kids and instructions on how to help your kids pick out all the stuff they want for Christmas. Josh had me laughing when he clutched the catalog, [...]