The Moral Divide

When the conversation about Jeffrey Epstein reemerged, I wrote, “Who could have known that a deviant pedophile rapist would finally bring Americans together?” I had hoped that our moral outrage…

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Religion & Politics

Last week, in what can only be seen as a historic election, Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City. The new mayor is a Democratic Socialist and a…

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Avarice

It is one of those old-timey words that is rarely used. Avarice is often considered a synonym of greed, but in its use, it feels like so much more. It…

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The Truth Matters

I remember the first time I attended the Firefly Music Festival in Delaware about 12 years ago. I saw a lot of interesting things. One of the most interesting –…

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Practice Your Faith, Part 2

The newly appointed Superintendent of Schools in Oklahoma has rescinded the previous superintendent’s order to put a Christian Bible in every public-school classroom. This is good news. Not because I…

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Practice Your Faith

The last 20 years have brought some uncomfortable truths to American Christians, and one of the most troubling – for churches – is that we really aren’t as faithful to…

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Standing Against Evil

In one of the many scenes of carnage in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy of movies, one of the heroic characters asks, “How can men stand against such evil?”…

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Freedom of Religion

I was watching the Penn State/UCLA football game a couple weeks ago, and I noticed that Penn State’s QB had a bible verse printed under his eyes. It was from…

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Godless Religion

Our Faith Formation class at Calvary used to study a book every winter, and the one we used about 10 years ago was “Christless Christianity” by Michael Horton, published in…

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