All through college I was bombarded with images and ads like this, showing how much (and how many) people around the world were suffering.  And the response was to feel guilty, give something up so I could give something away, and do the right thing: send some money.  Maybe this was your experience,too. For...

Ten or fifteen years ago, “courtship” became a buzzword in Evangelical culture. Books like Joshua Harris’ I Kissed Dating Goodbye* and Elisabeth Elliot’s Passion and Purity popularized the notion of replacing dating with antediluvian courtship rituals. It started a lot of conversations and sold...

There is now a strong and perplexing dichotomy in American Christianity: the Social Justice Christian and the Libertarian Christian. Both have been formed and strengthened by the politics of the last 10 years. They are polars, they wage against each other, yet both ideologies base their belief in...

I do not see your face in the moon Though once I saw your face in the moonlight, and I cannot find you in the sunset Though once we walked Through an explosion of amber, ruby and topaz And talked of nothing and all things and sun things. I look for you in the stars of steel And space-age plastics that...

Editor’s Note: Last month and then again last week, Fox News host Glenn Beck featured as his guest, Dr. Richard Lee, pastor of First Redeemer Church in Cummings, Georgia and General Editor of “The American Patriot’s Bible”, a book which (in its own words) “intersects the...

Yesterday I read an article in Parade magazine proclaiming that ninety-eight percent of Americans today “have engaged in at least one activity to make a difference.” I wasn’t surprised; only disheartened. If you haven’t noticed, it’s become quite popular—even trendy, cool, or fashionable—to...

“If your relatives are creeped out about you being an artist, tell them you’re an entrepreneur,” Luann Jennings, director of Redeemer Presbyterian Church‘s Center for Faith & Work in New York City, half-joked at Selling Yourself without Selling Out: An Introduction to Marketing...

God is not fair. He gleefully flaunts it too. He shoves it in our faces. Jesus’ version of reality is devoid of common sense. The Kingdom of God might as well be called, “Crazy Upside-down Jesus World.” Here’s an example: Say I need some landscaping done at my house. So I go to the...

your gentle gaze my heart pounds if you know me for who i am your attraction would fade repulsion, detraction, distraction how can you still pursue me after all of this? my betrayals many – my faithfulnesses few yet you are still looking at me calling me to you is it possible that a love could...

Lots of fun stuff to share from around the web this week: The poor give more than the rich: not really that surprising, but sad nonetheless. Are you as sick of all this lazy, self-absorbed Millennials talk as I am? Save this for future reference. I feel like I’ve been linking to the Image blog...