How to Disagree
March 31st, 2016
If anyone should know how to disagree well, it’s Christians. In his three years of public ministry, Jesus disagreed with pretty much everybody at some point. Yet he did it in such a way that he neve... Read More
Marriage as Spiritual Friendship
March 3rd, 2016
I write these notes in anticipation of our marriage conference coming up on Saturday, March 5th, which will focus on “middle marriage”—somewhat roughly defined as waaay-post-honeymoon, and (hopefully)... Read More
Discipling is Mentoring is Counseling
March 1st, 2016
We all need someone to talk to from time to time. We need someone that is willing to listen, but we also need someone who can nudge us in the right direction. We need someone to correct us, encourage ... Read More
The Meaning of Words
February 23rd, 2016
I first became aware of the manipulation of words when I wound up by accident on the debate team of my small private college. I made the mistake of arguing a point with the teacher of my speech class,... Read More
American Individualism and Collective Guilt
January 27th, 2016
I have never understood the idea of collective guilt, not really. Considering how engrained the American value of individualism is in our society, I suspect that I am not the only one. I have never be... Read More
Thinking in the Age of the Sound Byte
January 13th, 2016
Rene Descartes, a seventeenth century philosopher, spent a lot of time thinking about "the problem of error." If God is perfect and good and makes things that work well and are true (which he establis... Read More