How Does Your Church React to Issues? Fear or Love

As a boy, I spent a great deal of the summer at my grandparent’s ranch. It was a child’s dream – endless space to roam, all sorts of animals, ponds to swim in, trees to climb and stars to count. One day, I was running around the yard instead of doing what...

The Answer to Solving Your Next Spiritual Meltdown

I woke up recently to my daughter in great distress. The evening before we had cleaned her room and this included closing up the dollhouse to clean around it. The next morning when she opened it back up, everything was out of place. She was in a panic to try and...

Maybe Churches Should Stop Being So Nice

Recently, Time featured a cover story on director Kathryn Bigelow and her film, “Zero Dark Thirty.” If you have not seen the movie, it’s a tense and amazing story about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. One of the surprising elements of the article dealt...