Cindy and I were in Denver shortly after Christmas, 1996, when the JonBenet Ramsey murder was oh-so-briefly just a local story in the Rocky Mountain News. It soon became a national media obsession with enough steam to run for most of the past ten years. It’s back this week with an arrest.What a horrible [...]

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“The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” James Truslow Adams. Last week at Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit, I heard Bill Hybels interview rock superstar Bono on his faith and his passionate work against poverty and AIDS in Africa. Bono is one of the world’s most [...]

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When The Passion of the Christ came out, Mel Gibson was accused of painting the crucifixion story in an anti-Semitic way. I didn’t agree, although I have to admit that 1) Gibson was more nuanced in his presentation of the Romans than the temple leaders, and 2) passion plays have been used historically to [...]

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My previous post (and church newsletter article) was about my boyhood admiration for Superman. Well what’s a young kid who loves superheroes to do when he’s too old to believe in the Man of Steel? In the 70s there was a real-life substitute who flew through the air, put his own safety aside for the [...]

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I ran across an interesting blog today written by a homeless guy, called (interestingly) The Homeless Guy. He has been blogging for more than four years, but he recently attracted enough attention to make it to the front page on Digg (apparently driven by this Wired story). His blog will frustrate you if [...]

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MHCCer DeWayne Britt sent me this excellent article from a Christianity Today publication (Outreach International Today) about a minister’s struggle to relate to his openly-gay neighbors and reach out to them with the love of Christ. Our Wednesday Bible study had a lively discussion about this article and issue. Maybe it will stimulate your thinking [...]

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I mentioned in my sermon on Sunday that I heard a secular film critic mention that homosexuality was a subtext behind the latest X-Men movie (about mutants and those who want to “cure” them). Even if that subtext is present, there is certainly more to the movie than that. Here’s a story (thanks [...]

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Unity08 is a fascinating attempt to reshape the next presidential election by nominating a president and vice-president in an online convention. According to Unity08, this ticket will be “headed by a woman and/or man from each major party or by an independent who presents a Unity Team from both parties.”
Here is a section of [...]

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Christianity Today has posted an interview with Rod Sider, a well-known representative of the “evangelical left” and one of the founders of Christian Peacemaker Teams, the group whose members were captured and rescued (some of them) in Iraq. Sider has been around for a long time and comes at the Christians and Culture issues [...]

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Isaac Hayes, the soul-singer best known for the theme song to Shaft recently quit the TV show South Park due to its intolerance to religion. Hayes, who voices a character on the animated show, resents a recent satire (attack?) that South Park did against Scientology. South Park co-creator Matt Stone said that Hayes [...]

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