This past week, news sources reported that Alexi McCammond was dismissed from her job as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue even before officially starting. The 27-year-old McCammond was seen as a rising star who covered Joe Biden’s presidential campaign last year for...
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Returning to Normal After the Virus….Will We Have Learned Anything?
Besides their limited value in containing the virus, lockdown policies have been harmful in many ways. The harm to children of suspending in-person schooling is dramatic, including: poor learning, school drop outs, social isolation, and suicidal ideation. The...
More Than a Book
I was not aware until this past week that there has been an ongoing effort to make the Bible the official book of Tennessee. A story in Saturday Commercial Appeal began, “It’s back. Once again the controversial measure to make the Bible the official book of Tennessee...
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land
The House of Representatives has voted to pass the Equality Act, a bill that would ban discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It would also substantially expand the areas to which those discrimination protections apply. When the...
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When we say a solid “yes” to God, we are given discernment as to what we should say “no” to and the power to say it. Then our “no” to those things becomes a “yes” to God.
The No That Is a Yes
Christians have established a calendar shaped by the great events of Christ, His birth and the spread of the Christian faith: Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost. Along with Advent and Christmas the Lenten season receives the most attention. It is the time of...
God loves each one of us as though we were the only person in the world to love.
Preaching Is an Awesome Responsibility
Preaching is an awesome responsibility - to mount a pulpit and proclaim God’s word. I remember my first visit to China in 1979. The Bamboo Curtain was just being drawn a bit. Back then, Christians couldn’t meet publicly with Christians so, we met in secret. A little...