Love: The final ingredient
Heath Veuleman’s powerful article “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” got me thinking about so many different things. One of the main issues though ties into some artwork I began working on in 2003. …
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What’s love got to do with it?
The following essay was written by Heath Veuleman. Over the last decade, I have gone through many things where the call to love others is a real challenge. Heath has also experienced challenges in this …
The big God, small God divide at Christian colleges
A Christian college trend There is a disturbing trend that I have noticed at Christian colleges. It is a trend that has been confirmed to me by other professors with whom I have spoken. Most …
Sorry Jesus…. I just assumed you were on drugs
“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ‘For I was hungry, and …
Sin avoidance or doing right?
“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.” -Eric Metaxas* Avoiding Sin On my author page on this site, I describe myself as “uncomfortably” evangelical. Once, …
A Triumph of Love
My last essay, A Birthday (and Holiday) Lamentation, was a very personal exploration of some serious challenges in my life currently. It is a hard and sad post. Yet, there is hope. My wife, Pamela, …
A birthday (and holiday) lamentation
Today is my Birthday…Happy Birthday to me? I don’t feel very happy. It feels more like a time for lamentation than joy. I had a very different essay planned for this week but this subject …
Roe v. Wade Overturned: The stories you need to read
The overturning of Roe v Wade may be the biggest story in Christian politics in the last 50 years. There is such a glut of information as we seek to navigate this momentous shift. We …
The Religious Narcissist: Sitting in the Pew and Quoting Scripture
It seems like everyone knows a narcissist these days. It isn’t a term I really thought about a decade ago. After I left a teaching position with a corrupt president, I started hearing people refer …
The day evangelicals lost their testimony: Falwell endorsed Trump
A few years ago, I was teaching a week-long course at the Grunewald Guild. There had been some drama with one of the interns and his perception that the environment was repressive, which is not …