As Christ followers what is to be our response to culture? Should we embrace every cultural trend, resist every cultural trend or simply ignore the noise of society? I don’t think there’s a direct answer to these questions. I think the trend of society toward greater sensitivity to race, gender
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Our current reaction to ISIS is relevant to me because it means that we don’t understand commitment to belief and we really don’t think belief matters. Ultimately, belief determines behavior; a thought that the West needs to revisit. Decades of teaching in our schools and in some churches that there
There have been two significant news stories this week related to lying by public figures; one is that NBC News Anchor, Brian Williams embellished a story about riding in a helicopter that was fired on in Iraq; the other lying account was about our President saying he embraced the traditional
Well, I guess, “Who let the dogs out?,” a popular song played at professional football games will be replaced with “Who let the air out?” The story that has captured the news headlines this week has been the suspicion that my New England Patriots deflated the footballs to get a
Tribalism: The state or fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes. The behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own tribe or social group. Wikipedia: “Humans are social animals, and ill-equipped to live on their own. Tribalism and social bonding help to keep individuals committed