So I learned my mother had won a city-wide singing contest as a teenager and my dad had played soprano sax in a dance band during his...

So if anyone would ask me the same questions I posed in my recent blog post regarding the Jesus Movement the following would be my...

I was recently asked by someone in a local ministry leadership position my thoughts on centering on Jesus in daily life. Here is part of...

It's too common- and I've surely made this error plenty in my life- that people consult everyone and every source other than the Lord on...

Jesus said many things that "don't sound so nice" and one of them is certainly about casting "pearls before swine". Some folks are so...

I ask the reader what I ask myself: are you ready to sacrifice your own sense of peace for the sake of justice toward another? Here is...

In super-brief what it is and ain't for a Christ-follower. Like holiness, God imputes righteousness to us as a gift via Jesus's sacrifice...

FAMILY of God? Does it not seem clear control has always been the issue? Not only dictator despots but in marriages, businesses, sports...

In Matthew 20.1-16 we find Jesus teaching again by parable. To my understanding the sum of it is fairly simple. God chooses we who agree...

Anyone seeing this can either read or has a voice output on their device, but I'm sitting at one of my fave Chicago libraries just...

Not with "flesh and blood" writes Paul which in various ways we humans are so prone, primed and propaganda-ed to do. Yet "Fight the good...

I have long believed that both church and world history teaches us there is no one/absolute/this-is-how-it's-done culture. Culture is all...

In searching for something else I found something today that I'd sent out to just 6 key people in August of 2015. Here it is. Did I ever...

There are of course a massive and wide range of art forms and ways to apply them. I recently was blessed to hear a pastor friend of mine...

You might wonder about me (HA... plenty do!). So... why do I continually study and communicate in areas of history, anthropology,...