Karl Barth on the Fish and the Second Naïveté
A few months back our daughter Carissa heard the song “I Wanna Go Back” on the Fish and got hooked. She kept asking to …
Holy Week: Glory
John 17 Reading John 17, I was left thinking about the words glory and glorify. These words are used quite a few times at the …
Holy Week
As we enter into Holy Week, here is a reading schedule that follows John’s narrative of Jesus’ last days: Monday (4/10): John 17 (the …
Lent: Human
Luke 15:11-32 (MSG) Then he said, “There was once a man who had two sons. The younger said to his father, ‘Father, I want right …
Lent: Mess of Me
Romans 7:15-20 (NIV) I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate …
Lenten Devotional
Joel 2:12-13 (ESV) “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your …
Three to Read (Feb. 27, 2017)
This week, instead of 3 readings, there’s just one. And the reason is, its a little long, at just over 2,000 words. The article is about reading …
Three to Read (Feb. 21, 2017)
Here is this week’s Three to Read. The first is a Q&A interview with Old Testament scholar, Walter Bruegemann. He is asked some difficult …
Three to Read (Feb. 14, 2017)
Each week I’d like to try and give three hand-picked blog posts or articles that I found interesting or informative from my explorations around the web. …
Stephen Colbert vs. Ricky Gervais on God’s Existence
I came across this clip form the Colbert show the other day, where he had Ricky Gervais on. Colbert brings up the topic of …