Behind the Bars | When Reading Emails, Cave Pastorem!

Behind the Bars | When Reading Emails, Cave Pastorem!

My vision for my “Beyond the Bars” columns was to write about faithful responses to a very broken criminal justice system. Yet, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum last week, and this seems like a good venue to discuss it. A pastor called me; he was very...
The Puritans Were Right: Stop Checking Your Email

The Puritans Were Right: Stop Checking Your Email

Periodically, some of the very institutions most responsible for the 24/7-always-on work culture that we inhabit rue that culture, and then give counsel on how to disconnect for a while. Matthew Kitchen, writing recently in The Wall Street Journal, has such fresh...

Don’t Forward Libelous E-Mail

Like everyone else, I daily receive forwarded e-mail messages from friends and acquaintances. Whenever it says at the bottom, “Pass this along to 10 of your friends and keep this message alive,” I immediately determine I will not pass it along, no matter...

E-mail Dialogue and Family Diversity

The family from which I come and that into which I married both tend toward Christian conservatism in all matters religious and political. Since “9/11”, our differences ideologically have emerged most noticeably in exchanges of e-mail. Mostly these have...

Bogus E-mail Purports Effort to Ban Religious Broadcasting

In the latest twist on an urban legend that will not die, an e-mail message is making the rounds purporting to be a warning from Focus on the Family’s James Dobson about a supposed attempt to ban religious broadcasting from America’s airwaves. The Focus on...