I want an exceptional family. My dream family never fights, no one throws a tantrum, and they all sit at the dinner table happily eating their vegetables. My dream family also sits quietly in church with hands folded, listening intently to the pastor.
My real family is loud, opinionated, and chaotic.
Evie, the three year old, is [...]

I’m a sucker for the Olympics.  I’m not sure why, but for several weeks every two years my evenings consist of my wife and I sitting on the couch and watching an evening full of events.  Like every Olympic year, NBC rolls out a whole shlew of stories featuring athletes and their emotional struggles that [...]

I’ve read two articles recently focusing on how Christians can come together to support a larger cause when it comes to making sacrifices or showing compassion for Lent.
A group of Anglican British bishops are urging Christians to reduce their carbon footprint during Lent.  According to the USA Today, the bishops are asking people to at [...]

The earthquake in Haiti and the visible response raise a lot of issues for me. I was a missionary in the Dominican Republic for 6 years working near the border mostly with Haitians. I visited Port on a couple of occasions.
When I went to the DR as a missionary I imagined that helping would be [...]

It took me a while to get into advent this year, and I realized recently this might be because the posture is a little bit TOO familiar.
To me, advent is about anticipation and longing. Advent acknowledges that things aren’t ideal, but trusts and hopes that God will save us.  Advent involves not only trust that [...]

A couple of months ago, we had a conversation about online church.  Now lifechurch.tv, which is well known as a leader in online worship, has put out a video showing what it might be like if all of those online church goers actually ended up in a brick and mortar building.  It’s always good when [...]

In this Walk the Way video, Pastor Jeff Klein is talking about how his 8-year-old son was embarrassed to write a simple sentence for his spelling homework.  He was tasked with using the word saved.  Jeff suggested, and his son quickly rejected, the sentence: “Jesus saved me.”
It brings up a lot of questions.  Where does [...]

If identity is the new guilt, then idolatry is the new sin.
Protestants used to claim that Roman Catholics were idolaters because they had statues in their buildings. A couple of years ago an elder from a conservative Protestant denomination explained to me how Vietnamese people more easily came to Roman Catholicism from Buddhism because both [...]

For western Christianity the question for which Jesus is the answer was guilt. A much deserved hell was a clear and present danger for the general population and the church offered forgiveness and release from that threat. Money poured into the church through the sale of indulgences. Luther transformed the church when he discovered that [...]

(Guest blogger: Todd Hertz.  Todd is the E-Marketing Manager for ReFrame Media.  That basically means he works to build online relationships plus develop web and social media strategies.  He formally worked as the editor for multiple projects at Christianity Today.)
2009 has been a big year for celebrity confessions and apologies. The most notable cases:  Alex [...]