WHAT’S YOUR SECRET?
When he was alone with his disciples, he went over everything, sorting out the tangles, untying the knots. (Mark 4:34, The Message) Jesus was…
SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING SOLID
In 2016, Pastor David Jeremiah released a book: I Never Thought I’d See the Day! Sounds like something you or I could probably write,…
A CALL FOR COMPASSION OR FOR CONSPIRACIES?
A few months back, a fairly controversial Adventist speaker came to my home state of Maine and delivered a couple eyebrow-raising presentations that garnered…
OPPORTUNITY THE WORLD NEEDS
I first encountered the term “post-Christendom” in a college course on postmodernism. I had no idea what it meant, but I was intrigued. Eventually,…
DIFFERENT DAY, SAME GOD
One of my favorite places to get dessert is CRUMBL Cookies. It’s a cookie chain that serves giant fresh baked cookies in a brilliantly…
MEMOIRS OF A SANDWICH
I am a sandwich. Well, metaphorically … I guess I could more accurately say that I am a member of the “sandwich generation,” a…
MAKING SENSE OF THE CHAOS: ARE WE LIVING IN POSTNORMAL TIMES?
An era in which old orthodoxies are dying, new ones are emerging, and very few things seem to make sense. – Ziauddin Sardar There…
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
Raising a toddler is an exercise in madness. It’s like going to war every day with a clinically insane enemy, losing to said enemy,…
IN THE GRIP OF MODERNITY: THE VALUE OF HISTORY
Historian in-coming, as they say on social media reels: There never was a normal. That’s not what we want to hear, because we want…
THE ACCIDENTAL ADVENTIST
“The world and everyone in it is passing strange, except for me and thee—and even thou art a little strange.” That was my grandfather,…