HP is promoting a new slimming feature on their digital cameras. The before-after pictures are impressive, but when you watch the demo at HP’s site, you can see the distortion take place. CBS took flak in late August for slimming down Katie Couric in a publicity photo.
I learned of the HP camera feature [...]

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Mike Zukowski sent me this link to a Philip Yancey story called “Postcard from Africa” in Christianity Today. In Africa, AIDS, death, poverty and strong Christianity live with one another. My persistent thought while reading this story: African Christians will certainly lead us in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12
To me, this is one of the best promises of heaven that there is. Not just to know [...]

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O LORD, you deceived me, and I was deceived;
you overpowered me and prevailed.
I am ridiculed all day long;
everyone mocks me.
…So the word of the LORD has brought me
insult and reproach all day long.But if I say, “I will not mention him
or speak any more in his name,”
his word is in my heart like a [...]

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Since my previous post was about finding community and the one before that dealt with finding a life-long passion, I want to offer you this link to an 8-minute NPR story that pulls both together.
Shari Caudron, who is about my age, confesses that she has been serially passionate about a succession of things - running, [...]

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In response to my thirst for adventure that I described in my last blog post (which received wider-than-normal readership because it also ran in our church newsletter) I have had no shortage of suggestions from friends on how to kick-start the jaw-dropping life I desire. One guy suggested that I join him on [...]

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Lately for me, the joys of life have begun to wear thin. For some people, this happens at 65, when work ends and, well, what then? For some, it happens at 18 when suddenly there is a baby and bills and work. For some blessed folks, it never seems to happen.
Is [...]

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I’m not a big fan of church message signs, but I can at least ignore them when their messages are cute, trite, sappy or irrelevant. This one makes me mad. Of course the problem isn’t with “Share your faith with others” but with “Keep your doubts to yourself”. This advice makes us look like anti-thinking, [...]

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I just finished reading Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller, who also wrote Blue Like Jazz. One of Miller’s main points is that we, being separated from the security of God’s love, look to everybody else to tell us that we’re OK. He included this magnificently honest quote from Tom Arnold, [...]

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Most of you know that my wife Cindy and I have no children of our own. I have no regrets about that because I think it’s important to live the life God gives you and to live it faithfully, and we have many wonderful blessings for which to be grateful – my greatest blessing being [...]

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