I have been using social media sites to communicate with a broad audience more and more over the past couple of months. When my friend Darin stopped posting on his blog, I was not totally sold on the idea. I think there is a time and a place for the long format blog even in… Read More »
Our Kids
Why is it that when we talk about children’s ministry in the church, we often think of cartoon characters and bright colors; but when we think of “adult church”, it is often drab or dark? For Thanksgiving service this year, we printed out some color sheets and put baskets of crayons at the tables for… Read More »
Final Authority
A lot of people, Christians and non-Christians alike, misunderstand the idea of the Scriptures as our final authority for faith and practice. As a result, there is a lot of confusion about the Bible’s role in the lives of believers. If you are reading this and are not a believer, then what I have to… Read More »
A Theology of Violence
In the United States, violence is something that used to happen to someone else. It was something reserved for urban areas and gangsters or third world countries and oppressive regimes. But in the midst of the suburban American dream, violence was something you observed on television or in the newspaper. All of that has changed… Read More »
Washington Irving and the American Consciousness
It is a wonder to me that most Americans have no clue who Washington Irving was. Along with a very small group of writers – among them Edgar Allen Poe and James Fenimore Cooper – he was one of the first American writers to receive international acclaim. Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron were fans.… Read More »
Where’d That Blogger Go?
Lately, I have not been writing a lot for the blog. There have been a lot of contributing factors to my absence, but to be honest the biggest is that I don’t really know what to write about right now. My last couple of posts were about medieval history, which is a topic that fascinates… Read More »
Mesarites Fearing No Thieves
In 1204, French Crusaders broke down the seawalls of Constantinople and sacked the greatest city on earth. Although the French nobles and their Venetian allies had agreed to keep the sacking to a non-violent minimum (there was a ban on raping women and killing priests), the rank and file of the Crusader army was not… Read More »
Dandolo on the Prow
In 1203, a massive Venetian fleet sailed into the Golden Horn intent on landing a Crusader army and taking the city of Constantinople. The Crusaders had intended to sail to Egypt but they had failed to pay the Venetians and now were doing the Venetians bidding in attempting to put the young claimant Alexius Angelus… Read More »
How Are You Looking?
Some Sundays, I have a little trouble getting an idea out. This Sunday may have been one of those days. The big idea on Sunday was this: when you look AT things I the world, what are you looking FOR? In Luke 12, Jesus challenged the religious people of his day. They were able to… Read More »
Believe
You cannot say you believe something until you are willing to accept it in the void. What do I mean by the void? There are a lot of rational reasons to believe in lots of things. There are often a lot of rational reasons not to believe. Sometimes there are lots of things we don’t know –… Read More »
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