“Just do something,” she said to the crowd of young people. Sitting in the crowd, I prayed for self-control – enough to keep me from standing and shouting, “No!” Some somethings are inefficient. Others are ineffective. Some are even destructive. Please don’t just do something. “Just do something” sounds wonderful… Read More
Archive Year: 2013
Why I (Would Like To) Blog
Kat asks hard questions. “Why do you blog?” she asked. “What need are you trying to meet?” That was weeks ago and I’ve been pondering ever since… “Are you famous?” my oldest daughter once asked after a giggly woman walked away from our table at Cracker Barrel. “Well, to some… Read More
Maker Of The Starry Sky
After the concert Sunday night we drove around Southaven, Mississippi looking for a place to eat and watch some football. I find the best way to soak up after-performance adrenaline and settle my nerves before bed is to inhale a large serving of chips and queso – so the search… Read More
What Pacifism Taught Me About The Truth (And Myself)
It happened a few months after 9/11. A friend, assuming I would agree, complained that Christians in America were overwhelmingly in support of going to war with whoever was responsible. He was a Southern Baptist. He didn’t sew his own clothes out of hemp, live in a commune, grow a… Read More
Love Does Not Read Minds
Just before our wedding an elderly woman who’d been married for many decades handed Becky a thin paperback: Men Read Newspapers Not Minds. Becky read it on the first flight of our honeymoon. The humor on its pages was a couple generations out of date but the wisdom of its… Read More
What Causes Me To Doubt Christianity
I’ve seen a lethargic infant girl held in the skeleton arms of her mother. I’ve heard eyewitnesses tell stories of how religious warfare destroyed their life and nation. I’ve prayed with a leper whose healing has never come. I’ve been rebutted by eloquent atheist apologists spewing razor-sharp logic and philosophy.… Read More