These words come from Rachel Evans. I think she’s on to something.
I’ve been thinking a lot about fear recently.
It started last week at the Festival of Faith and Writing in Grand Rapids, when bestselling author Mary Karr asked an audience of writers, “What would you write if you had no fear?”
I knew instantly that such [...]

Here’s the intro from a film I recently presented at the Lipscomb Preaching Conference. The joke per China and the growth of Christianity is from Randy Harris (that got left out in the edits, fyi).
Collision

When I catch myself staring at Lucas (which happens a lot), I can’t help, at times, but feel a deep sadness come over me. Don’t get me wrong, I love every moment of fatherhood. Especially the ones where I’m exhausted, he’s crying and then, all of a sudden, he stops, pauses, and smiles at me. [...]

As I write this, I’m watching Slumdog Millionaire with Kara. Unless you’ve totally sworn off all things “culturally relevant” you’ve probably heard that Slumdog is all the rave. I know I’ve written about Slumdog before. However, watching this movie for second time gives me new windows to look through.
It’s a film about love, hope [...]

One of my students at RC (an excellent thinker and deeply spiritual leader) . . . Shalmar Hylton . . . read this to our class recently. I think it is absolutely brilliant.
“All nature speaks with an articulate voice: everything in it is song, music and sound. All beings whisper, sigh, hum, quaver, chirp, [...]

As I prepared to preach at Rochester Church yesterday . . . these words were on my mind: “For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every [...]

I recently came across a story regarding the human brain. The story began by describing the genius of Virginia Woolf’s writing—specifically her propensity to create complex, paradoxical characters in Mrs. Dalloway. According to the author, Woolf had the ability to create real characters who were at one moment full of joy, the next, drowning in [...]