I wrote this short piece for FOX NEWS (online).  It appeared over the weekend.
Growing up in suburban Detroit, I never had to wrestle with the question “Is it okay for me to pray for my team to win the Super Bowl?”
As a basketball player turned minister, I’ve observed that sport and religion have one interesting thing [...]

“The Fab 5 was a hurricane.” — Mitch Albom
I’m writing this from my gut. I don’t care if there’s a misspelled word or comma splice. From the gut. No editing.
I watched, with great interest, the recent ESPN Fab Five documentary that aired Sunday evening after the NCAA selection show. If you look back at the chronology [...]

What’s the greatest lesson/truth you’ve gleaned from marriage? This will help me in a teaching/essay I’m working on. All are welcome to comment. Married. Single. Single again. Married many times. My only criteria is that you reference what you’ve learned in the context of your own marriage or another marriage not your own (parents, grandparents, etc.).
So, [...]

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do . . . you will be criticized. I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last 12 months. I am trying to live this out in all phases of my life (family, vocation, friends)–but I’ve got a long way to go. I’m not using [...]

I went through a box of sports memorabilia (because that’s what has-beens do) recently . . . I couldn’t find the thing I was looking for. I thought I’d saved a game tape (remember VHS tapes?) from a specific game from my senior year of high school. I’m trying to keep a box of things to [...]

“The main reason Christian believers today lack influence in the culture, despite their aspirations, is not because they don’t believe enough or try hard enough or think Christianly enough. It’s because they’ve been absent from the arenas in which the greatest influence in the culture is exerted. The culture-producing institutions of Christianity are largely marginalized [...]