Let’s be honest with ourselves here: how many of us can actually stand listening to holiday music from Black Friday to Christmas Day? The same five songs are belted by the church choir Sunday after Sunday. The same five songs are played on the radio over and over. If we buy a Christmas CD –...

(Check out David Zimmerman’s blog post on the Governor. Very good stuff.)

It’s that time of the year when nearly every website, magazine, television show or semi-regular tent meeting comes up with a list to try to capture what just happened over the last twelve months. The music press seem to be the worst culprits with hundreds of media outlets expressing their opinion...

Bill McKibben is and has been the leading voice calling for action to combat climate change for nearly three decades. His first book, The End of Nature, was the Silent Spring of our generation. McKibben has devoted his life to raising awareness of the global warming issue and, during that time, has...

Lispa walks into a room like a Maya Angelou poem. Hips swaying, eyes sparkling, large smooth arms picking up scattered toys and books without ever breaking her stride. She repeats my daughters’ names with her lilting Kenyan accent, over and over, her motherly mantra. There’s a quiet dignity...

I’ve come to believe that knowing God’s will is not an exact science and it’s our desire for precise formulas that gets us in trouble. Back in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve depended on an ongoing conversation with God to understand his will concerning right and wrong. Satan made them discontent...

Last Sunday, Greater Grace Temple, a church in Detroit, Michigan, brought three hybrid SUVs onto their altar. During the service, Bishop Charles Ellis lead his congregation in prayers for the bailout of the auto industry to go through. Yesterday, I posted an entry about the service, and I admitted that...

I lack any sort of healthy perspective regarding Daniel Amos, the legendary and nearly totally unknown Christian alternative act of the 80′s to the present. I feel like I should say that upfront. I wasn’t forced to listen to Christian music as a kid, but there were some dodgy times back...

Despite my love of books, I’m not often a library guy. I usually like to own the books I read, because I can put them on a shelf and make it seem like I’m cultured. Of course, sometimes I don’t read them at all, as Dan Gibson pointed out on a recent visit. “Wow, you have almost...

If you’re like me there’s something that you do at least four times a day that you’d rather avoid. It’s not brushing my teeth (I’m not that neurotic), eating my vegetables, or checking my email. All you moms (and savvy title readers) out there guessed it – it’s changing diapers. When...